BILL NUMBER: AB 333	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Melendez

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2015

    An act to amend Section 49417 of the Education Code,
relating to pupil health.   An act to add Section 856 to
the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 333, as amended, Melendez.  Pupil health: automated
external defibrillators.   Healing arts: continuing
education.  
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various
healing arts licensees by various boards, as defined, within the
Department of Consumer Affairs and imposes various continuing
education requirements for license renewal.  
   This bill would allow specified healing arts licensees to apply
one unit, as defined, of continuing education credit towards any
required continuing education units for attending a course that
results in the licensee becoming a certified instructor of
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or the proper use of an automated
external defibrillator (`AED), and would allow specified healing
arts licensees to apply up to 2 units of continuing education credit
towards any required continuing education units for conducting CPR or
AED training sessions for employees of school districts and
community college districts in the state.  
   Existing law authorizes a public school to solicit and receive
nonstate funds to acquire and maintain an automated external
defibrillator (AED). Existing law provides 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. Existing law provides 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.  
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 856 is added to the  
Business and Professions Code   , to read:  
   856.  (a) A person licensed pursuant to this division who is
required to complete continuing education units as a condition of
renewing his or her license may apply one unit of continuing
education credit towards that requirement for attending a course that
results in the licensee becoming a certified instructor of
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or the proper use of an automated
external defibrillator (AED).
   (b) A person licensed pursuant to this division who is required to
complete continuing education units as a condition of renewing his
or her license may apply up to two units of continuing education
credit towards that requirement for conducting CPR or AED training
sessions for employees of school districts and community college
districts in the state.
   (c) For purposes of this section, "unit" means any measurement for
continuing education, such as hours or course credits. 

  SECTION 1.    Section 49417 of the Education Code
is amended 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 the 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.