Full Text of SR0139 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Passed in 2014, PA 98-0632, also known as | 3 | | Lauren's Law, requires all Illinois high schools and secondary | 4 | | schools to teach CPR and AED instruction and training as part | 5 | | of their health curriculum; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The CPR and AED training must be incorporated | 7 | | into the health curriculum of a school, but it is not required | 8 | | to be within that specific course time; the law does not | 9 | | specify content, but both the American Red Cross and the | 10 | | American Heart Association require that content must cover
| 11 | | lecture, demonstration, and practice; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Lauren's Law does not require mouth-to-mouth, | 13 | | mouth-to-facemask, or rescue breathing training but must | 14 | | include hands-on skill delivery; the instruction may be | 15 | | delivered in person, by video, online, by webinar, or by the | 16 | | reading of manuals; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Many schools do not have CPR or AED training as | 18 | | part of their curriculum, or they have the training on their | 19 | | syllabus but do not comply; currently, there are no | 20 | | consequences for non-compliance; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Untrained bystanders who witness cardiac arrest |
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| 1 | | do not know how to respond to a cardiac emergency, which loses | 2 | | valuable response time; according to the American Heart | 3 | | Association, over 350,000 people die from out of hospital | 4 | | cardiac arrest each year; a person has a 10% chance of | 5 | | surviving an out of hospital cardiac arrest; early recognition | 6 | | of a cardiac arrest and immediate quality CPR is the link to | 7 | | survival; bystander CPR can increase survival by 2-3 times; | 8 | | therefore, be it
| 9 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 10 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we strongly urge the | 11 | | Illinois State Board of Education to enforce compliance of | 12 | | Lauren's Law at all Illinois high schools and secondary | 13 | | schools and to encourage school districts to include the | 14 | | program as early as the 6th grade; and be it further
| 15 | | RESOLVED, That we strongly urge all public schools to | 16 | | become Heart Safe Schools by completing a Cardiac Emergency | 17 | | Response Plan (CERP); and be it further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, As part of the CERP, we urge schools to clearly | 19 | | identify school staff that have CPR and AED certification and | 20 | | offer non-certification CPR and AED training to other staff | 21 | | members; and be it further | 22 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| 1 | | delivered to the Illinois State Board of Education.
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