BILL NUMBER: AB 2217	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Melendez

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to add Section 49416 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2217, as introduced, Melendez. Pupil and personnel health:
automatic external defibrillators.
   Existing law authorizes a school district or school to provide a
comprehensive program in first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation
training, or both, to pupils and employees, and requires the program
to be developed using specified guidelines.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to encourage
all public schools to acquire and maintain at least one automatic
external defibrillator (AED). The bill would authorize a public
school to solicit and receive nonstate funds to acquire and maintain
an AED. The bill would provide that the school district and employees
of the school district are not liable for civil damages resulting
from certain uses, attempted, uses, or nonuses of an AED, except as
provided.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 49416 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   49416.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage all
public schools to acquire and maintain at least one automatic
external defibrillator (AED).
    (b) A public school may solicit and receive nonstate funds to
acquire and maintain an AED. These funds shall only be used to
acquire and maintain an AED and to provide training to school
employees regarding use of an AED.
   (c) Except as provided in subdivision (d), if an employee of a
school district complies with Section 1714.21 of the Civil Code in
rendering emergency care or treatment through the use, attempted use,
or nonuse of an AED at the scene of an emergency, the school
district and the employee shall not be liable for any civil damages
resulting from any act or omission in rendering the emergency care or
treatment.
   (d) Subdivision (c) does not apply in the case of personal injury
or wrongful death that results from gross negligence or willful or
wanton misconduct on the part of the person who uses, attempts to
use, or maliciously fails to use an AED to render emergency care or
treatment.
   (e) This section does not alter the requirements of Section
1797.196 of the Health and Safety Code.