AEDS AND CPR IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
House Bill 886 (Public) Filed Wednesday, April 9, 2025
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE PLACEMENT OF AUTOMATIC EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS (AEDS) IN ALL SCHOOLS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL UNITS AND TO PROVIDE TRAINING FOR SCHOOL PERSONNEL ON THE USE OF AEDS AND CPR.
Intro. by Gable, Almond, Schietzelt, Chesser.
Status: Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate action) (May 8 2025)

Bill History:

H 886

Bill Summaries:

  • Bill H 886 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: May 7 2025 - View Summary

    House amendments make the following changes to the 1st edition.

    Amendment #1

    Removes provisions appropriating $4.1 million from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for 2025-26 to be allocated by the Superintendent of Public Instruction on a first-come, first-served basis to governing bodies of public school units in an amount sufficient to purchase and install one automatic external defibrillators (AED) per school and train personnel on the proper use of the AED as required by this act. Authorizes the State Board of Education (Board) to adopt emergency rules to implement the act for the 2025-26 school year. Changes the effective date to when the act becomes law (was, July 1, 2025). 

    Amendment #2

    Inserts whereas clauses that describe how Representative Becky Carney's life was saved by the presence of an AED when she went into cardiac arrest in the building of the General Assembly on April 2, 2009. Titles the act, "The Rep. Becky Carney Cardiac Arrest Act."  Makes organizational changes.  

    Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, State Agencies, UNC System, Department of Public Instruction, Health and Human Services, Health
    APPROP, GS 115C, GS 116
  • Bill H 886 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: Apr 9 2025 - View Summary

    Enacts GS 115C-12(50) to require the State Board of Education (State Board) to adopt rules for the installation, use, and maintenance of automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in public school units. Lists five required components of the rules, including placement of at least one AED in each school and implementation of an appropriate training course for school personnel in the use of AEDs, as specified. 

    Amends GS 115C-47, GS 115C-150.12C, GS 115C-218.75, GS 115C-238.66, GS 116-11, and GS 115C-562.5  requiring local boards of education, schools for deaf and blind students, charter schools, regional schools, the UNC Board of Governors for all public secondary schools under their instruction, and nonpublic schools accepting eligible students receiving scholarship grants who have facilities where students attend in-person classes, to develop policies for the installation, maintenance, and use of AEDs pursuant to the rules adopted by the State Board under the new GS 115C-12(50).

    Appropriates $4.1 million from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for 2025-26 to be allocated by the Superintendent of Public Instruction on a first-come, first-served basis to governing bodies of public school units in an amount sufficient to purchase and install one AED per school and train personnel on the proper use of the AED as required by this act.

    Effective July 1, 2025. Applies beginning with the 2025-26 school year. 

    Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, State Agencies, UNC System, Department of Public Instruction, Health and Human Services, Health
    APPROP, GS 115C, GS 116
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