HLS 15RS-936 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 106
BY REPRESENTATIVES WILLMOTT, HAVARD, HODGES, AND HONORE AND
SENATORS BROOME AND WHITE
COMMENDATIONS: Commends Bo Myers for his heroic actions in saving his nephew's
life using the CPR procedure he learned at Zachary High School
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2To commend Bo Myers for his heroic actions in saving the life of a family member using
3 the cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedure he learned at Zachary High School.
4 WHEREAS, on February 18, 2015, Bo Myers, a senior at Zachary High School,
5returned home from baseball practice and heard his youngest nephew, Clay Fancher, age
6four, crying in the back yard; and
7 WHEREAS, Mr. Myers went into the yard and found his older nephew, Carter
8Fancher, age seven, unconscious and pinned beneath a steel tabletop weighing roughly six
9hundred pounds that had fallen on him, and that days earlier had taken five men to lift into
10place; and
11 WHEREAS, remaining calm at the scene of this terrible accident, Mr. Myers
12instructed Clay to go inside and have his mother or aunt call 9-1-1, managed to move the
13tabletop off of Carter, and started performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the procedure
14commonly known as "CPR", which he had learned in a class at Zachary High School just
15weeks before; and
16 WHEREAS, after the fifth or sixth cycle of compressions, and just as paramedics
17were arriving, Carter began to revive; and
18 WHEREAS, the actions of Mr. Myers that day proved to be heroic, as his perfect
19execution of CPR was instrumental in saving the life of his nephew, who was treated for and
20recovered from his injuries; and
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1 WHEREAS, CPR is a lifesaving procedure that persons can use in emergencies in
2which someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped; and
3 WHEREAS, research has demonstrated that children as young as nine years of age
4can learn and retain the basics of CPR; and
5 WHEREAS, recognizing the importance of young people receiving training on this
6procedure, the legislature passed House Bill No. 542 of the 2014 Regular Session, which
7became Act No. 517, and was named the "Burke Cobb Act" in memory of a fourteen-year-
8old Dutchtown High School student who died of a sudden cardiac arrest while playing
9basketball; and
10 WHEREAS, the Burke Cobb Act requires public high schools to provide instruction
11on CPR, and authorizes that instruction to occur within the curriculum of existing courses
12such as health education or physical education; and
13 WHEREAS, this legislation became a signature proposal of the 2014 Regular
14Session, gathering sixty-one coauthors on its way through the legislative process and
15achieving final passage with unanimous committee and floor votes in favor in both
16legislative chambers; and
17 WHEREAS, it is heartening to the members of the Legislature of Louisiana to see
18that carefully crafted laws on public health and safety can contribute to protecting and saving
19lives just as the Burke Cobb Act has done, and will likely do again; and
20 WHEREAS, while legislative bodies may endeavor to protect health and safety, the
21true power to save lives in emergency situations rests in the hands of persons such as Bo
22Myers who, with a brave spirit and the proper training, took actions on February 18, 2015,
23that saved his nephew's life and made him a hero to his family and his community.
24 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
25commend Bo Myers, the "CPR hero" of Zachary, Louisiana, for his heroic actions in saving
26the life of his nephew, and does hereby extend to him best wishes for success in all of his
27future endeavors.
28 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the legislature does hereby recognize and
29commend Sean "Doc" Stanton, first responder class instructor, for capably delivering quality
30instruction on CPR at Zachary High School.
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1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the legislature does hereby affirm the vital
2importance of training in the simple but lifesaving CPR procedure, and encourages all
3Louisianians to undertake CPR training.
4 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
5to the family of Bo Myers, to Sean "Doc" Stanton, and to Joe LeBlanc, principal of Zachary
6High School.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HCR 106 Original 2015 Regular Session Willmott
Commends Bo Myers for his heroic actions in saving his nephew's life using the CPR
procedure he learned at Zachary High School.
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