BILL NUMBER: AB 2217	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 24, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Melendez
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Buchanan   and Hagman   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to add Section  49416   49417  to
the Education Code, relating to pupil health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2217, as amended, Melendez. Pupil and personnel health:
 automatic   automated  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   automated  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,   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   49417  is
added to the Education Code, to read:
    49416.   49417.   (a) It is the intent
of the Legislature to encourage all public schools to acquire and
maintain at least one  automatic   automated
 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.