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WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 4497

By Delegates Mandt, Atkinson, Criss, Hill, Lovejoy, Miller, Linville, Worrell, Hornbuckle, Rohrbach and Ellington

[Originating in the Committee on Finance;
February 21, 2020.]


 

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-2-25b, relating to requiring the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to require that an automated external defibrillator device, as well as a posted emergency action plan, be present on the school or event grounds during the duration of all extramural high school or middle school athletic events and practices under the control, supervision and regulation of the commission, and that all school sports personnel be trained in the use of the device; requiring that the automated external defibrillator device on the school or event grounds be located as close to the event or practice activity as is possible; requiring that rules be proposed for promulgation by the state board of education; and naming the law The Alex Miller Law.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:


ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.


§18-2-25b. Defibrillator required at certain events.

In memory of Alex Miller, a Roane County football player who collapsed and died during a school football game, this law shall be known as The Alex Miller Law.

The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission shall require that an automated external defibrillator device, as well as a posted emergency action plan, be present  on the school or event grounds during the duration of all extramural high school or middle school athletic events and practices under the control, supervision and regulation of the commission, and that all school sports personnel be trained in the use of the device.  Furthermore, the automated external defibrillator device on the school or event grounds shall be located as close to the event or practice activity as is possible.

The commission shall propose rules for promulgation by the state board in accordance with the provisions of §29A-3B-1 et seq. of this code to implement the provisions of this section.

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