BILL NUMBER: ACR 23	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 19, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Melendez   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2015

   Relative to Automated External Defibrillator Awareness Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 23, as amended, Salas. AED Awareness Week.
   This measure would designate the week of February 22 through 28,
2015, as Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Awareness Week in
California.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, AED is an acronym used as an abbreviation for Automated
External Defibrillator; and
   WHEREAS, AEDs are portable medical devices that use electrodes to
automatically analyze and detect cardiac arrhythmia of sudden cardiac
arrest patients; and
   WHEREAS, AEDs are able to produce a shock that stops the heart and
allows it to return to a normal rhythm, a process called
defibrillation; and
   WHEREAS, AEDs are used in the event of a sudden cardiac arrest,
which is a condition in which the heart suddenly stops pumping blood
and quivers erratically; and
   WHEREAS, About 360,000 cases of sudden cardiac arrest occur
yearly, typically without any warning signs; and
   WHEREAS, More than 7,000 children and young adults experience
sudden cardiac arrest in the United States each year; and 
   WHEREAS, Olivia Ruiz and Caleb Hannink, both Centennial High
School students in Bakersfield, and Jose Beltran from Cecil Middle
School in Delano, died from sudden cardiac arrest in 2004, 2012, and
2015, respectively, without an AED present on the campus; and

   WHEREAS, A person currently has about a 5 percent chance of
surviving an incident of cardiac arrest, which decreases by 7 to 10
percent with every minute that passes after a person's heart stops
beating; and
   WHEREAS, Optimal AED placement allows a person to grab the AED and
return to the victim within 90 seconds; and
   WHEREAS, Given that a person's chances of surviving a sudden
cardiac arrest decrease so rapidly, it is important that Californians
are aware of the importance of AEDs and their life-saving potential;
now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the week of February 22 through 28, 2015, be
designated as Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Awareness Week
in California; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.