Bill Text: TX HB496 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to traumatic injury response protocol and the use of bleeding control stations in public schools.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB496 Detail]

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  By: Gervin-Hawkins, Bernal, Allison H.B. No. 496
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the placement of bleeding control stations in public
  schools and to required training of public school personnel and
  students.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 38.029 to read as follows:
         Sec. 38.029.  BLEEDING CONTROL STATION PROGRAM. (a) In this
  section, "emergency alerting device" means a device designed to
  send, once a case containing the device is opened, an emergency
  alert that provides continuous information about the location of
  the device to preprogrammed recipients, including a 9-1-1 call
  center, school resource officers, and emergency services
  personnel, using multiple forms of communication technology to
  ensure connectivity, including cellular telephone technology,
  Bluetooth technology, global positioning technology, general
  packet radio service technology, and wireless computer networking
  technology.
         (b)  Each school district and open-enrollment charter school
  shall develop and implement at each campus of the district or school
  a bleeding control station program that:
               (1)  ensures that bleeding control stations, as
  described by Subsection (e), 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;
               (2)  includes the use of bleeding control stations in:
                     (A)  any security planning measure or protocol
  adopted by a district, including a district's multihazard emergency
  operations plan under Section 37.108(a); or
                     (B)  any security planning measure or protocol
  adopted by a charter school's governing body;
               (3)  requires 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)  subject to Subsection (c), requires each student
  enrolled in grade seven or higher at the campus to annually receive
  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).
         (b-1)  A district's school safety and security committee or
  the charter school's governing body may select, as easily
  accessible areas of the campus at which bleeding control stations
  may be stored, areas of the campus where automated external
  defibrillators are stored.
         (c)  A student is not required to receive the instruction
  under Subsection (b)(4) if:
               (1)  the student has a disability that makes
  participating in the instruction impractical; or
               (2)  the student's parent or guardian does not consent
  to the student receiving the instruction.
         (d)  The commissioner shall adopt guidelines to ensure that:
               (1)  school districts and open-enrollment charter
  schools provide notice to a parent of each child enrolled at a
  district or school campus regarding the instruction required under
  Subsection (b)(4); and
               (2)  parents are provided the opportunity to remove the
  parent's child from the instruction.
         (d-1)  A bleeding control station required under this
  section must contain a first aid bleeding control kit that includes
  each of the items required under Subsection (e), in appropriate
  quantities as provided by that subsection, based on one of three
  options selected by the district or school. A district or school
  may select:
               (1)  as option one, that each bleeding control station
  located at the district or school include a first aid bleeding
  control kit containing the appropriate quantity of required
  supplies to treat eight injured persons;
               (2)  as option two, that each bleeding control station
  of the district or school include a first aid bleeding control kit
  containing the appropriate quantity of required supplies to treat
  five injured persons; or
               (3)  as option three, that each bleeding control
  station of the district or school include a first aid bleeding
  control kit containing all required supplies in quantities
  determined appropriate by the superintendent of the district or the
  director of the school.
         (e)  A first aid bleeding control kit must include the
  following supplies, in quantities applicable to the option selected
  under Subsection (d-1), as follows:
               (1)  tourniquets that include a locking mechanism:
                     (A)  eight, if option one is selected;
                     (B)  five, if option two is selected; or 
                     (C)  the quantity determined appropriate by the
  superintendent or director, if option three is selected;
               (2)  chest seals:
                     (A)  eight, if option one is selected;
                     (B)  five, if option two is selected; or 
                     (C)  the quantity determined appropriate by the
  superintendent or director, if option three is selected;
               (3)  patient care cards:
                     (A)  eight, if option one is selected;
                     (B)  five, if option two is selected; or 
                     (C)  the quantity determined appropriate by the
  superintendent or director, if option three is selected;
               (4)  pairs of latex-free gloves:
                     (A)  five, if option one or option two is
  selected; or
                     (B)  the quantity determined appropriate by the
  superintendent or director, if option three is selected;
               (5)  space emergency blankets:
                     (A)  five, if option one or option two is
  selected; or
                     (B)  the quantity determined appropriate by the
  superintendent or director, if option three is selected;
               (6)  hemostatic-impregnated gauze dressings:
                     (A)  two, if option one or option two is selected;
  or
                     (B)  the quantity determined appropriate by the
  superintendent or director, if option three is selected;
               (7)  permanent markers:
                     (A)  two, if option one or option two is selected;
  or
                     (B)  the quantity determined appropriate by the
  superintendent or director, if option three is selected;
               (8)  pairs of trauma shears:
                     (A)  two, if option one or option two is selected;
  or
                     (B)  the quantity determined appropriate by the
  superintendent or director, if option three is selected;
               (9)  compression bandages;
                     (A)  two, if option one or option two is selected;
  or
                     (B)  the quantity determined appropriate by the
  superintendent or director, if option three is selected;
               (10)  one hard-shell case, regardless of the option
  selected; and
               (11)  one emergency alerting device, regardless of the
  option selected.
         (f)  In addition to the items listed under Subsection (e), a
  school district or open-enrollment charter school may also include
  in a bleeding control station any medical material or equipment
  that:
               (1)  may be readily stored in a bleeding control
  station;
               (2)  may be used to adequately treat an injury
  involving traumatic blood loss; and
               (3)  is approved by local law enforcement or emergency
  medical services personnel.
         (g)  A school district or open-enrollment charter school
  shall conduct an annual inspection of the medical material and
  equipment in each bleeding control station stored on a campus of the
  district or school and replace any expired material or equipment as
  necessary.
         (h)  A school district or open-enrollment charter school
  must restock a bleeding control station as soon as practicable
  after a use of the station to ensure the station contains all
  required material and equipment.
         (i)  To satisfy the training requirement of Subsection
  (b)(3), the agency may approve a course of instruction that has been
  developed or endorsed by:
               (1)  the American College of Surgeons or a similar
  organization; or
               (2)  the emergency medicine department of a
  health-related institution of higher education or a hospital.
         (j)  The course of instruction for training described under
  Subsection (i) may not be provided as an online course. The course
  of instruction must use nationally recognized, evidence-based
  guidelines for bleeding control and must incorporate instruction on
  the psychomotor skills necessary to use a bleeding control station
  in the event of an injury to another person,
  including instruction
  on proper chest seal placement. The course of instruction may be
  provided by an instructor who is properly qualified to provide the
  instruction described under Subsection (i), which may include
  emergency medical technicians, paramedics, law enforcement
  officers, firefighters, representatives of the organization or
  institution that developed or endorsed the training, educators, or
  other public school employees. A course of instruction described
  by Subsection (i) is not required to provide for certification in
  bleeding control. If the course of instruction does provide for
  certification in bleeding control, the instructor must be
  authorized to provide the instruction for the purpose of
  certification by the organization or institution that developed or
  endorsed the course of instruction.
         (k)  A school district or open-enrollment charter school and
  the employees of the district or school are immune from civil
  liability from damages or injuries resulting from the good faith
  use of a bleeding control station by an employee of the district or
  school to control the bleeding of an injured person, provided that
  the employee did not act with gross negligence in the use of the
  bleeding control station.
         SECTION 2.  (a) Not later than October 1, 2019, the Texas
  Education Agency shall approve training in the use of a bleeding
  control station that is appropriate to satisfy the training
  required by Section 38.029, Education Code, as added by this Act.
         (b)  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this
  Act, and not later than January 1, 2020, each school district and
  open-enrollment charter school shall develop and implement the
  bleeding control station program required by Section 38.029,
  Education Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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