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Committee backs bill requiring schools to have cardiac emergency response plans
Utah Legislature — Education Committee · February 12, 2026
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Summary
Senators advanced SB 244 to require each Utah school to adopt a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) after testimony from nurses and first responders who credited AEDs and CPR with saving lives; the committee recommended the bill 3–1.
Senator Stevenson told the committee that more than 23,000 youth experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest annually and that survival decreases by roughly 10% each minute without intervention. "Our schools are really the nucleus of our communities," he said, introducing SB 244 to require each school to establish a cardiac…
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