Bill Text: MI HB5528 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Education: athletics; CPR and AED certification requirements for athletic coaches; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1319.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-30 - Assigned Pa 37'24 [HB5528 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB5528-Chaptered.html
Act No. 37
Public Acts of 2024
Approved by the Governor
April 27, 2024
Filed with the Secretary of State
April 29, 2024
EFFECTIVE DATE: Sine Die
(91st day after final adjournment of the 2024 Regular Session)
state of michigan
102nd Legislature
Regular session of 2024
Introduced by Reps. Tyrone Carter, Fitzgerald, Wilson, Martus, Liberati, Scott, McKinney, Edwards, Dievendorf, Snyder and Haadsma
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5528
AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to make appropriations for certain purposes; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1319.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1319. (1) Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, the
board of a school district or intermediate school district, board of directors
of a public school academy, or governing body of a nonpublic school shall not
permit an individual to serve as an athletic coach at a high school operated by
the board, board of directors, or governing body unless that individual
maintains a valid certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use of an
automated external defibrillator issued by the American Red Cross, American
Heart Association, or a comparable organization or institution approved by the
department.
(2) An individual described in this section who performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation or uses an automated external defibrillator in the course of that individual’s employment as an athletic coach is not liable in a civil action for damages resulting from an act or omission occurring in that performance except an act or omission constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
