BILL ANALYSIS Ó ACR 23 Page 1 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING ACR 23 (Salas) As Amended February 19, 2015 Majority vote ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Committee |Votes |Ayes |Noes | |----------------+------+--------------------+--------------------| |Rules |11-0 |Gordon, Chang, | | | | |Burke, Campos, | | | | |Cooley, Dodd, | | | | |Jones, Mayes, | | | | |Rodriguez, Waldron, | | | | |Wood | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Designates the week of February 22 through February 28, 2015, as Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Awareness Week in California. Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative findings: 1)AED's are portable medical devices that use electrodes to automatically analyze and detect cardiac arrhythmia of sudden cardiac arrest patients and are able to produce a shock that stops the heart and allows it to return to a normal rhythm, a process called defibrillation. 2)Sudden cardiac arrest, which is a condition in which the heart suddenly stops pumping blood and quivers erratically, occurs ACR 23 Page 2 in about 360,000 people yearly, of those cases, more than 7,000 are children, typically without warning signs. 3)A person's survival rate decreases by 7% to 10% for every minute that passes after their heart stops beating, so optimal AED placement allows a person to grab the AED and return to the victim within 90 seconds. FISCAL EFFECT: None ACR 23 Page 3 Analysis Prepared by: Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 FN: 0000038