Bill Text: TX SB1550 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1550

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation in public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-21 - Filed [SB1550 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB1550-Introduced.html

	89R5131 KRM-D

	By: Cook	S.B. No. 1550



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation in public
	schools.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 28.0023(e), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(e) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction must include
	training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques and training
	in the use of an automated external defibrillator and must
	incorporate psychomotor skills to support the instruction. The
	instruction must be [~~that has been~~] developed:
	(1) by the American Heart Association or the American
	Red Cross; or
	(2) using nationally recognized, evidence-based
	guidelines for emergency cardiovascular care [~~and incorporating~~
	~~psychomotor skills to support the instruction~~].
	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
	school year.
	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, 2025.