{As Amended by House Committee of the Whole}
Session of 2024
Substitute for HOUSE BILL No. 2494
By Committee on Education
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AN ACT concerning school districts; relating to emergency response
policies; establishing requirements for cardiac emergency response
plans; creating the school cardiac emergency response grant fund.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) The secretary of health and environment shall develop
statewide standards for cardiac emergency response plans. Such standards
shall be developed in accordance with nationally recognized guidelines for
implementation of cardiac emergency response plans as promulgated by
organizations focused on emergency cardiovascular care.
(b) The board of education of each school district shall adopt a
comprehensive cardiac emergency response plan, including policies and
procedures for cardiac emergency responses for each attendance center
operated by the school district, based on the statewide standards developed
by the secretary under subsection (a). The board may utilize any materials,
documentation, video recordings, training modules and certifications
published by organizations focused on emergency cardiovascular care. The
cardiac emergency response plan shall include, but is not limited to, the
following:
(1) Establishing of a cardiac emergency response team;
(2) identifying and implementing the placement of automated
external defibrillators;
(3) identifying roles and responsibilities of school district personnel,
local law enforcement agencies and local emergency medical services in
implementing the cardiac emergency response plan;
(4) establishing procedures, including the roles and responsibilities of
school district personnel when responding to incidents involving an
individual experiencing a suspected sudden cardiac arrest while attending
school or at the site of any school-sponsored athletic practice or
competition or other school-sponsored activity located in this state whether
such site is located on the grounds of the school district or at another
location, including, but not limited to:
(A) Responding to individuals experiencing a suspected sudden
cardiac arrest;
(B) summoning emergency medical services;
(C) assisting emergency medical service providers; and
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(D) documenting actions taken during such incident;
(5) conducting routine maintenance of automated external
defibrillators, including appropriate placement in accordance with the
statewide standards;
(6) designating school district personnel for training in the use of
automated external defibrillators and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
during a cardiac emergency;
(7) rehearsing cardiac emergency response plans, by simulation, by
all athletic directors, coaches, assistant coaches, athletic trainers, school
nurses and any other school district personnel designated pursuant to
paragraph (6) either prior to the beginning of each athletic season or prior
to the beginning of each school year;
(8) establishing communication systems with local emergency
medical services operating within the school district; and
(9) developing a cardiac emergency action plan for school-sponsored
events held at a location that is not on school district property.
(c) Each board of education shall annually review the cardiac
emergency response plan and adopt any changes to such plan as necessary.
(d) Each school district shall submit a copy of the adopted cardiac
emergency response plan to the secretary of health and environment. If the
board of education of such district adopts any changes to such plan, a copy
of the amended plan shall be submitted to the secretary.
Sec. 2. (a) Each school district shall provide a copy of such district's
cardiac emergency response plan to the appropriate local law enforcement
agencies, emergency medical services and all school district personnel.
Prior to the first instructional day of each school year, a school building
administrator shall review the cardiac emergency response plan with all
school personnel at each school operated by the school district. The time
and date of such review shall be documented as part of the plan. After the
last instructional day of each school year, the cardiac emergency response
plan shall be revised by all school building administrators, school nurses
and appropriate local law enforcement officers and emergency medical
services personnel.
(b) In accordance with the school district's cardiac emergency
response plan, each school district shall maintain an automated external
defibrillator in a public and readily accessible location in each school
district building used for student attendance purposes. Such locations shall
have conspicuous signs indicating the location of each automated external
defibrillator.
(c) Each coach, including any head coach, assistant coach or aide, any
sponsor, including the head sponsor, assistant or aide, of any activity, as
defined in K.S.A. 72-7117, and amendments thereto, and any other school
district personnel designated pursuant to section 1(b)(6), and amendments
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thereto, shall receive annual training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and
automated external defibrillator administration {in accordance with such
school district's cardiac emergency response plan}. At least one
individual with such training shall be in attendance at each {physically
present in the school district building when any} school-sponsored
athletic practice or competition or other school-sponsored activity that
occurs in any {such} school district building used for student attendance
purposes with {and shall have} access to an automated external
defibrillator and first aid supplies. {Notice of such individual's presence
in the building shall be provided to the coach, sponsor or other
coordinator of such practice, competition or other activity as required
by the cardiac emergency response plan.} Such training shall be
annually reviewed and modified as necessary {in accordance with such
district's cardiac emergency response plan}.
(d) Any person who in good faith renders emergency care or
treatment pursuant to this section or who provides training as required by
this section shall not be held liable for any damages as provided in K.S.A.
65-6149a, and amendments thereto.
Sec. 3. The board of education of a school district shall implement the
cardiac emergency response plan adopted pursuant to section 1, and
amendments thereto, as the school district has sufficient unencumbered
funds available to implement such plan. A cardiac emergency response
plan may be partially implemented as funds are available and as deemed
necessary by the board of education.
Sec. 4. (a) There is hereby established the school cardiac emergency
response grant program to be administered by the department of health and
environment. Each school district may submit an application to the
secretary of health and environment in such form and manner as
prescribed by the secretary for an amount of grant moneys needed by such
school district to implement such school district's cardiac emergency
response plan adopted pursuant to section 1, and amendments thereto.
Each grant application shall include a copy of the current school district
cardiac emergency response plan, including all policies and procedures
adopted for the implementation of such plan, and a description of the
school improvements that the school district determines are necessary for
such implementation. The secretary shall review all submitted applications
and approve or deny such applications based on whether the applicant
school district has demonstrated the necessity of the school improvements
described in the application. If the secretary approves an application, the
secretary shall determine the amount of moneys to be disbursed to the
applicant school district from the school cardiac emergency response grant
fund. If the secretary denies an application, then, within 15 days of such
denial, the secretary shall send written notice of such denial to the
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superintendent of such school district.
(b) There is hereby established in the state treasury the school cardiac
emergency response grant fund to be administered by the department of
health and environment. All expenditures from the school cardiac
emergency response grant fund shall be used for the disbursement of grant
moneys for school improvements in accordance with this section and shall
be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the
director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by
the secretary of health and environment or the secretary's designee. Upon
receipt of such grant moneys, the school district treasurer shall deposit the
amount of such award in the general fund of the school district.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
January 1, 2025, and its publication in the statute book.
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