SB454: requiring public school students to receive CPR training.

SB 454-FN - AS INTRODUCED

2016 SESSION

16-2793

04/01

SENATE BILL 454-FN

AN ACT requiring public school students to receive CPR training.

SPONSORS: Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Rep. McKinney, Rock. 5; Rep. Lundgren, Rock. 5; Rep. Tamburello, Rock. 5; Rep. Introne, Rock. 5

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

This bill requires a school board to incorporate cardiopulmonary resuscitation training into a school's health education class.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2793

04/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT requiring public school students to receive CPR training.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 School Boards; Studies. Amend RSA 189:10 to read as follows:

189:10 Studies. The school board shall ensure that health education and physical education are taught to pupils as part of the basic curriculum. The school board shall ensure that all studies prescribed by the state board of education are thoroughly taught, especially physiology, hygiene, and health and physical education as they relate to the effects of alcohol and other drugs, child abuse, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and sexually transmitted diseases on the human system. The school board shall require cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training to be incorporated into the health education class required of all pupils. The CPR training shall at a minimum include an opportunity to practice and master psychomotor skill-based CPR and an overview of automated external defibrillator use. The CPR training shall be in accordance with the requirements of the American Heart Association, American Red Cross, or other nationally-recognized training organization. Formal certification of a pupil shall not be required. The school board shall provide a waiver process for any pupil who is physically unable to perform CPR.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

LBAO 16-2793

12/16/15

SB 454-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AN ACT requiring public school students to receive CPR training.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Department of Education states this bill, as introduced, may increase local expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2017 and each year thereafter. There will be no impact on state, county, and local revenues or state and county expenditures.

METHODOLOGY:

The Department of Education states this bill would require school districts to incorporate CPR training into the health education class required for graduation. The Department assumes this training would only be required in high schools of which there are 96 in the state, including charter public schools. The Department assumes the cost for an American Heart Association “CPR In Schools” training kit, which includes all necessary equipment and teaching guides, costs $625. Local expenditures may increase to the extent a school district may not have existing resources to comply with the teaching requirement included in this bill.