Bill Text: HI SCR143 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Concurrent Resolution 143 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Urging The Board Of Education To Include Instruction In Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Into Health Education Curriculum For Students In Grades Nine Through Twelve In All Public Schools In The State.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-11 - The committee(s) on LHE recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SCR143 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-SCR143-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	143
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

urging the board of education to include instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation into health education curriculum for students in grades nine through twelve in all public schools in the state.

WHEREAS, of the four hundred thousand people who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States each year, only six percent survive the episode; and

WHEREAS, in the State, emergency medical services teams treat nearly one thousand one hundred cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year, with only nine percent of these victims surviving; and

WHEREAS, cities that have increased training for cardiopulmonary resuscitation have seen cardiac arrest survival rates reach up to sixty percent; and

WHEREAS, thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation training as a high school graduation requirement and at least seventy-five percent of public high school students in the United States that are graduating this year will have learned lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation in their schools; and

WHEREAS, by incorporating cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, which can 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 a less likelihood that Hawaii residents will not feel helpless to act during a cardiac arrest emergency and survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests will increase; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2019, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Board of Education is urged to include instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation into health education curriculum for students in grades nine through twelve in all public schools in the State; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation be included in at least one health class required for graduation; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation include hands-on practicing of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use and be in congruence with current, nationally recognized, evidence-based emergency care guidelines; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a public school may waive the instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation for any student who is unable to participate in hands-on practicing of cardiopulmonary resuscitation by reasons of disability; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that 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 or the use of an automated external defibrillator not be liable for any civil damages alleged to result from the acts or omissions of an individual who received such instruction; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a public employee who provides or facilitates the instruction of students in compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation or the use of an automated external defibrillator not be liable for any civil damages alleged to result from the acts or omissions of an individual who received such instruction; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Chair of the Board of Education and Superintendent of Education.