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

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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]

Download: Texas-2019-HB496-Introduced.html

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86R517 GCB-F
By: Gervin-Hawkins H.B. No. 496

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the placement of bleeding control kits in public
schools and to required training of school personnel.
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 KIT PROGRAM. (a) Each school
district and open-enrollment charter school shall develop and
implement at each campus of the district or school a bleeding
control kit program that:
(1) ensures that bleeding control kits, as described
by Subsection (b), 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 kits in:
(A) 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; and
(3) requires all district or school personnel who may
be reasonably expected to use a bleeding control kit in the event of
an injury to another person to receive agency-approved training.
(b) A bleeding control kit required under this section must
be a first aid response kit that includes:
(1) one tourniquet;
(2) two compressed gauze dressings;
(3) one trauma dressing;
(4) nitrile gloves;
(5) scissors; and
(6) instructional documents adopted by the agency
detailing methods to prevent blood loss following a traumatic
event.
(c) In addition to the items listed under Subsection (b), 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.
(d) A school district or open-enrollment charter school
shall conduct an annual inspection of the medical material and
equipment in each bleeding control kit stored on a campus of the
district or school and replace any expired material or equipment as
necessary.
(e) A school district or open-enrollment charter school
must restock a bleeding control kit as soon as practicable after a
use of the kit to ensure the kit contains all required material and
equipment.
(f) To satisfy the training requirement of Subsection
(a)(3), the agency may approve an online course of instruction
provided by the American College of Surgeons or a similar
organization.
(g) 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 kit by an employee of the district or
school to control the bleeding of an injured person, provided that:
(1) the employee received the training required under
Subsection (a)(3); and
(2) the employee did not act with gross negligence in
the use of the bleeding control kit.
SECTION 2. (a) Not later than October 1, 2019, the Texas
Education Agency shall approve training in the use of a bleeding
control kit that is appropriate to satisfy the training required by
Section 38.029(a)(3), 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 kit 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.