WEST virginia legislature

2019 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2787

By Delegates Byrd, Maynard, Harshbarger, Queen, Worrell, Rohrbach, J. Jeffries, Lovejoy, Fluharty, Pushkin and Robinson

[Introduced January 31, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Education then Health and Human Resources.]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding two new sections, designated §18-5-22e and §18-28-8; all relating to requiring schools to have persons with first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training on-site.

ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

§18-5-22e. Requiring emergency administration of first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation for select school personnel.    

Every public school must have present, on-site during the school day and on-site during afterschool sporting events, at least one school employee certified in basic first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. If a nurse is not assigned full time to a school, then two school employees must be certified. Basic first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training must have been completed in a nationally accredited program, such as a program developed by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross. The cost of this training program is not to be borne by the employee.

ARTICLE 28. PRIVATE, PAROCHIAL OR CHURCH SCHOOLS, OR SCHOOLS OF A RELIGIOUS ORDER.

§18-28-8. Requiring emergency administration of first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation for select school personnel.

Every private school must have present, on-site during the school day and on-site during afterschool sporting events, at least one school employee certified in basic first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. If a nurse is not assigned full time to a school, then two school employees must be certified. Basic first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training must have been completed in a nationally accredited program, such as a program developed by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to assure emergency health care services are available to students in all private and public schools by requiring that persons certified in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training are available during school hours and after school sporting events.  

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.