Bill Text: TX HB1147 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of bleeding control stations in public schools.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Left pending in committee [HB1147 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1147-Introduced.html
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| By: Gervin-Hawkins | H.B. No. 1147 | |
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| relating to the regulation of bleeding control stations in public | ||
| schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 38.030, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsections (b) and (d) and adding Subsection (d-1) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) The protocol required under this section must: | ||
| (1) provide for a school district or open-enrollment | ||
| charter school to maintain and make available to school employees | ||
| and volunteers bleeding control stations, as described by | ||
| Subsection (d), for use in the event of a traumatic injury involving | ||
| blood loss; | ||
| (2) ensure that bleeding control stations are stored | ||
| in easily accessible areas of the campus that are selected by the | ||
| district's school safety and security committee or the charter | ||
| school's governing body; | ||
| (3) require that agency-approved training on the use | ||
| of a bleeding control station in the event of an injury to another | ||
| person be provided to: | ||
| (A) each school district peace officer | ||
| commissioned under Section 37.081 or school security personnel | ||
| employed under that section who provides security services at the | ||
| campus; | ||
| (B) each school resource officer who provides law | ||
| enforcement at the campus; and | ||
| (C) all other district or school personnel who | ||
| may be reasonably expected to use a bleeding control station; and | ||
| (4) require the district or charter school to annually | ||
| offer instruction on the use of a bleeding control station from a | ||
| school resource officer or other appropriate district or school | ||
| personnel who has received the training under Subdivision (3) to | ||
| students enrolled at the campus in grade three [ |
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| (d) A bleeding control station required under this section | ||
| must contain all of the following required supplies in quantities | ||
| determined appropriate by the superintendent of the district or the | ||
| director of the school: | ||
| (1) tourniquets approved for use in battlefield trauma | ||
| care by the armed forces of the United States; | ||
| (2) chest seals; | ||
| (3) compression bandages; | ||
| (4) bleeding control bandages; | ||
| (5) space emergency blankets; | ||
| (6) latex-free gloves; | ||
| (7) markers; | ||
| (8) scissors; [ |
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| (9) instructional documents developed by the American | ||
| College of Surgeons or the United States Department of Homeland | ||
| Security detailing methods to prevent blood loss following a | ||
| traumatic event; and | ||
| (10) emergency alerting devices. | ||
| (d-1) In this section, "emergency alerting device" means a | ||
| device designed to send, once the case containing the device is | ||
| opened, an emergency alert that provides continuous information | ||
| about the location of the device to preprogrammed recipients, | ||
| including 9-1-1 call centers, school resource officers, and | ||
| emergency services personnel, using multiple forms of | ||
| communication technology to ensure connectivity, including | ||
| cellular telephone technology, Bluetooth technology, global | ||
| positioning system technology, general packet radio service | ||
| technology, and wireless computer networking technology. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
