Bill Text: TX SB865 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automated external defibrillators for school district, private school, and open-enrollment charter school employees and volunteers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-22 - Filed [SB865 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB865-Introduced.html

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89R6001 RAL-F
By: Alvarado S.B. No. 865

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the
use of automated external defibrillators for school district,
private school, and open-enrollment charter school employees and
volunteers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 22.902(c) and (e), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(c) Each school nurse, assistant school nurse, athletic
coach or sponsor, physical education instructor, marching band
director, cheerleading coach, and any other school employee
specified by the commissioner and each student who serves as an
athletic trainer must participate in the instruction in
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and [in] the use of an automated
external defibrillator. A person described by this subsection must
receive and maintain certification in cardiopulmonary
resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator
from the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, or a
similar nationally recognized association.
(e) [This subsection applies only to a private school that
receives an automated external defibrillator from the agency or
receives funding from the agency to purchase or lease an automated
external defibrillator.] A private school or open-enrollment
charter school shall adopt a policy under which the school makes
available to school employees and volunteers instruction in the
principles and techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the
use of an automated external defibrillator. The policy must comply
with the requirements prescribed by this section and commissioner
rules adopted under this section, including the requirements
prescribed by Subsection (c).
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.