Bill Text: OH HB247 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
Bill Title: To make clear that any person may perform automated external defibrillation, to extend qualified immunity from civil liability to premises owners and other persons involved with automated external defibrillator placement and use, to allow proceedings for a mentally ill person subject to court order to be in a probate court in any county, rather than in the county where the mentally ill person subject to court order resides, and to modify the form of the affidavit used to initiate proceedings for court-ordered treatment of a mentally ill person.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 55-18)
Status: (Passed) 2014-12-19 - Governor' Action [HB247 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB247-Introduced.html
As Introduced
A BILL
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Bill Title: To make clear that any person may perform automated external defibrillation, to extend qualified immunity from civil liability to premises owners and other persons involved with automated external defibrillator placement and use, to allow proceedings for a mentally ill person subject to court order to be in a probate court in any county, rather than in the county where the mentally ill person subject to court order resides, and to modify the form of the affidavit used to initiate proceedings for court-ordered treatment of a mentally ill person.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 55-18)
Status: (Passed) 2014-12-19 - Governor' Action [HB247 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB247-Introduced.html
|
|
Representative Stebelton
Cosponsors:
Representatives Huffman, Butler, Sears, Becker, Lynch
To amend section 3701.85 of the Revised Code to make | 1 |
clear that any person may perform automated | 2 |
external defibrillation. | 3 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 3701.85 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
amended to read as follows: | 5 |
Sec. 3701.85. (A) As used in this section: | 6 |
(1) "Automated external defibrillation" has the same meaning | 7 |
as in section 2305.235 of the Revised Code. | 8 |
(2) "Emergency medical services organization" has the same | 9 |
meaning as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. | 10 |
| 11 |
12 | |
13 | |
14 | |
15 |
| 16 |
17 |
| 18 |
19 |
(B) A person who possesses an automated external | 20 |
defibrillator shall do | 21 |
(1) | 22 |
a course in automated external defibrillation and cardiopulmonary | 23 |
resuscitation that is offered or approved by | 24 |
25 |
(2) Maintain and test the defibrillator according to the | 26 |
manufacturer's guidelines | 27 |
| 28 |
29 |
(C) A person who possesses an automated external | 30 |
defibrillator may notify an emergency medical services | 31 |
organization of the location of the defibrillator. | 32 |
(D) | 33 |
34 | |
35 | |
automated external defibrillation | 36 |
37 | |
38 | |
external defibrillation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation is | 39 |
recommended but not required. | 40 |
When automated external defibrillation is not performed as | 41 |
part of an emergency medical services system or at a hospital as | 42 |
defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code, an emergency | 43 |
medical services system shall be activated as soon as possible. | 44 |
Section 2. That existing section 3701.85 of the Revised Code | 45 |
is hereby repealed. | 46 |