Bill Text: TX SB2087 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to traumatic injury response protocol and the use of bleeding control kits in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Left pending in committee [SB2087 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2087-Introduced.html
86R8946 GCB-D | ||
By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 2087 |
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relating to traumatic injury response protocol and the use of | ||
bleeding control kits in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.030 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.030. TRAUMATIC INJURY RESPONSE PROTOCOL. (a) A | ||
school district or open-enrollment charter school shall develop and | ||
annually make available a protocol for school employees and | ||
volunteers to follow in the event of a traumatic injury. | ||
(b) The protocol required under this section must provide | ||
for a school district or open-enrollment charter school to maintain | ||
and make available to school employees and volunteers a bleeding | ||
control kit for use in the event of a traumatic injury involving | ||
blood loss. | ||
(c) A bleeding control kit required under this section must | ||
be a first aid response kit that includes: | ||
(1) a tourniquet approved for use in battlefield | ||
trauma care by the armed forces of the United States; | ||
(2) compression bandages; | ||
(3) bleeding control bandages; | ||
(4) protective gloves; | ||
(5) markers; | ||
(6) scissors; and | ||
(7) 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. | ||
(d) In addition to the items listed under Subsection (c), a | ||
school district or open-enrollment charter school may also include | ||
in a bleeding control kit any medical material or equipment that: | ||
(1) may be readily stored in a bleeding control kit; | ||
(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. | ||
(e) A school district or open-enrollment charter school and | ||
the employees or volunteers of the district or school are immune | ||
from civil liability from damages or injuries resulting from the | ||
good faith use of a bleeding control kit by an employee or volunteer | ||
of the district or school to control the bleeding of an injured | ||
person, provided that: | ||
(1) the employee or volunteer followed the protocol | ||
developed under Subsection (a); and | ||
(2) the employee or volunteer did not act with gross | ||
negligence in the use of the bleeding control kit. | ||
SECTION 2. 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 traumatic injury response protocol required by | ||
Section 38.030, 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. |