Bill Text: IL HB1225 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Creates the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act. Provides that the Act applies to public schools, school districts, and recognized nonpublic schools. Requires the Department of Public Health and the State Board of Education to develop and post on their publicly accessible Internet websites guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents, and their coaches about the nature and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest. Sets forth provisions concerning a sudden cardiac arrest symptoms and warning signs information sheet, informational meetings regarding the symptoms and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest, and a sudden cardiac arrest training course. Provides that (i) a student who exhibits signs or symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest while participating in an athletic activity must be removed by the team's head coach from participation at that time, (ii) if a student is known to have exhibited signs or symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest at any time prior to or following an athletic activity, the team's head coach shall prevent the student from participating in an athletic activity, and (iii) a student removed or prevented from participating in an athletic activity shall not return to participation until the student is evaluated and cleared for return to participation in writing by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches, certified nurse practitioner, or cardiologist; sets forth penalties. Contains provisions concerning other youth athletic activities, construction of the Act, and agency rules. Effective 60 days after becoming law.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-08-12 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0305 [HB1225 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB1225-Amended.html
Bill Title: Creates the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act. Provides that the Act applies to public schools, school districts, and recognized nonpublic schools. Requires the Department of Public Health and the State Board of Education to develop and post on their publicly accessible Internet websites guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents, and their coaches about the nature and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest. Sets forth provisions concerning a sudden cardiac arrest symptoms and warning signs information sheet, informational meetings regarding the symptoms and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest, and a sudden cardiac arrest training course. Provides that (i) a student who exhibits signs or symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest while participating in an athletic activity must be removed by the team's head coach from participation at that time, (ii) if a student is known to have exhibited signs or symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest at any time prior to or following an athletic activity, the team's head coach shall prevent the student from participating in an athletic activity, and (iii) a student removed or prevented from participating in an athletic activity shall not return to participation until the student is evaluated and cleared for return to participation in writing by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches, certified nurse practitioner, or cardiologist; sets forth penalties. Contains provisions concerning other youth athletic activities, construction of the Act, and agency rules. Effective 60 days after becoming law.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-08-12 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0305 [HB1225 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB1225-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1225
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1225 on page 1, | ||||||
| 3 | immediately below line 19, by inserting the following:
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| 4 | "(c) Any person who has watched the training video in | ||||||
| 5 | accordance with this Section and who in good faith, not for | ||||||
| 6 | compensation, provides emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation | ||||||
| 7 | in accordance with this training to a person who is an apparent | ||||||
| 8 | victim of acute cardiopulmonary insufficiency is not, as the | ||||||
| 9 | result of his or her acts or omissions in providing | ||||||
| 10 | resuscitation, liable for civil damages, unless the acts or | ||||||
| 11 | omissions constitute willful or wanton misconduct. | ||||||
| 12 | (d) As provided in Section 30 of the Automated External | ||||||
| 13 | Defibrillator Act, any automated external defibrillator user | ||||||
| 14 | who in good faith and without fee or compensation renders | ||||||
| 15 | emergency medial care involving the use of an automated | ||||||
| 16 | external defibrillator in accordance with his or her training | ||||||
| 17 | is not liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or | ||||||
| 18 | omission, except for willful or wanton misconduct, by that | ||||||
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| 1 | person in rendering that care.".
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