BILL NUMBER: AB 2217	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 26, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 1, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 6, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 24, 2014

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

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2217, Melendez. Pupil and personnel health: 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 authorize a public school to solicit and receive
nonstate funds to acquire and maintain an automated external
defibrillator (AED). The bill would provide that the 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. The bill would provide that a public school or school
district that complies with certain requirements related to an AED is
not liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission
in the rendering of the emergency care or treatment, except as
provided.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 49417 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   49417.  (a) A public school may solicit and receive nonstate funds
to acquire and maintain an automated external defibrillator (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.
   (b) 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 employee shall
not be liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or
omission in the rendering of the emergency care or treatment.
   (c) Except as provided in subdivision (d), if a public school or
school district complies with the requirements of Section 1797.196 of
the Health and Safety Code, the public school or school district
shall be covered by Section 1714.21 of the Civil Code and shall not
be liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission in
the rendering of the emergency care or treatment.
   (d) Subdivisions (b) and (c) do 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.