Bill Text: HI SB2420 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Bill 2420

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating To Education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-22 - Referred to EDU, WAM/JDC. [SB2420 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2420-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2420
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to education.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that of the nearly four hundred thousand people who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States each year, only ten per cent survive the episode. In Hawaii, emergency medical services teams treat nearly one thousand one hundred cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year, with only nine per cent of these victims surviving. Additionally, cities that have increased training for cardiopulmonary resuscitation have seen cardiac arrest survival rates reach up to sixty per cent.

The legislature further finds that over forty states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation training as a high school graduation requirement, and at least seventy-five per cent of public high school students in the United States who are graduating this year will have learned lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation in their schools. By incorporating cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, which can typically be completed in a single thirty-minute session, as an integral part of the health education curriculum for all students in grades nine through twelve in the State, there is less likelihood that Hawaii residents will feel helpless to act during a cardiac arrest emergency, thereby increasing the survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

Therefore, the purpose of this Act is to require public, private, and charter schools to include instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver in their health education curriculum required for graduation for students in grades nine through twelve.

SECTION 2. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part I, subpart B, to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§302A- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation education; Heimlich maneuver education. (a) Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, the department shall provide thirty minutes of instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and training in the proper performance of the Heimlich maneuver to high school students, which shall be included in at least one health education class required for graduation.

(b) Instruction provided under this section shall:

(1) Include hands-on practicing of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use;

(2) Include hands-on practicing of the Heimlich maneuver; and

(3) Be in congruence with current, nationally recognized, evidence-based emergency care guidelines.

(1) Are not licensed teachers, but who are formally trained to provide the instruction, including volunteers from the community; or

(2) Are licensed teachers but who are not formally trained to provide the instruction.

(d) A public school may waive the requirement for instruction provided under this section for any student who is unable to participate in hands-on practicing of cardiopulmonary resuscitation or the Heimlich maneuver by reasons of disability.

(e) A local agency, entity of the State or local government, or other public or private organization that sponsors, authorizes, supports, finances, or supervises the instruction of students in compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the use of an automated external defibrillator, or instruction of the Heimlich maneuver shall not be liable for any civil damages alleged to result from the acts or omissions of an individual who received the instruction.

(f) A public employee or private school employee who provides or facilitates the instruction of students in compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the use of an automated external defibrillator, or instruction of the Heimlich maneuver shall not be liable for any civil damages alleged to result from the acts or omissions of an individual who received the instruction."

SECTION 3. Chapter 302C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§302C- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation education; Heimlich maneuver education. (a) Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, all private schools in the State shall provide thirty minutes of instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and training in the proper performance of the Heimlich maneuver to high school students, which shall be included in at least one health education class required for graduation.

(b) Instruction provided under this section shall:

(1) Include hands-on practicing of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use;

(2) Include hands-on practicing of the Heimlich maneuver; and

(3) Be in congruence with current, nationally recognized, evidence-based emergency care guidelines.

(1) Are not teachers, but who are formally trained to provide the instruction, including volunteers from the community; or

(2) Are teachers but who are not formally trained to provide the instruction.

(d) A private school may waive the requirement for instruction provided under this section for any student who is unable to participate in hands-on practicing of cardiopulmonary resuscitation or the Heimlich maneuver by reasons of disability.

SECTION 4. Chapter 302D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§302D- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation education; Heimlich maneuver education. (a) Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, all public charter schools shall provide thirty minutes of instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and training in the proper performance of the Heimlich maneuver to high school students, which shall be included in at least one health education class required for graduation.

(b) Instruction provided under this section shall:

(1) Include hands-on practicing of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use;

(2) Include hands-on practicing of the Heimlich maneuver; and

(3) Be in congruence with current, nationally recognized, evidence-based emergency care guidelines.

(1) Are not licensed teachers, but who are formally trained to provide the instruction, including volunteers from the community; or

(2) Are licensed teachers but who are not formally trained to provide the instruction.

(d) A public charter school may waive the requirement for instruction provided under this section for any student who is unable to participate in hands-on practicing of cardiopulmonary resuscitation or the Heimlich maneuver by reasons of disability.

SECTION 5. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Department of Education; Public Schools; Public Charter Schools; Private Schools; High School Graduation Requirements; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Heimlich Maneuver; Health Education

Description:

Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires all public, private, and charter schools in the State to include thirty minutes of instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and training in the proper performance of the Heimlich maneuver in their health education curriculum required for graduation for students in grades 9-12. Specifies instruction requirements. Waives liability for instruction under certain circumstances.

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