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2015 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 106
BY REPRESENTATIVES WILLMOTT, HAVARD, HODGES, AND HONORE AND
SENATORS BROOME AND WHITE
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend Bo Myers for his heroic actions in saving the life of a family member using
the cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedure he learned at Zachary High School.
WHEREAS, on February 18, 2015, Bo Myers, a senior at Zachary High School,
returned home from baseball practice and heard his youngest nephew, Clay Fancher, age
four, crying in the back yard; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Myers went into the yard and found his older nephew, Carter
Fancher, age seven, unconscious and pinned beneath a steel tabletop weighing roughly six
hundred pounds that had fallen on him, and that days earlier had taken five men to lift into
place; and
WHEREAS, remaining calm at the scene of this terrible accident, Mr. Myers
instructed Clay to go inside and have his mother or aunt call 9-1-1, managed to move the
tabletop off of Carter, and started performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the procedure
commonly known as "CPR", which he had learned in a class at Zachary High School just
weeks before; and
WHEREAS, after the fifth or sixth cycle of compressions, and just as paramedics
were arriving, Carter began to revive; and
WHEREAS, the actions of Mr. Myers that day proved to be heroic, as his perfect
execution of CPR was instrumental in saving the life of his nephew, who was treated for and
recovered from his injuries; and
WHEREAS, CPR is a lifesaving procedure that persons can use in emergencies in
which someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped; and
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WHEREAS, research has demonstrated that children as young as nine years of age
can learn and retain the basics of CPR; and
WHEREAS, recognizing the importance of young people receiving training on this
procedure, the legislature passed House Bill No. 542 of the 2014 Regular Session, which
became Act No. 517, and was named the "Burke Cobb Act" in memory of a fourteen-year-
old Dutchtown High School student who died of a sudden cardiac arrest while playing
basketball; and
WHEREAS, the Burke Cobb Act requires public high schools to provide instruction
on CPR, and authorizes that instruction to occur within the curriculum of existing courses
such as health education or physical education; and
WHEREAS, this legislation became a signature proposal of the 2014 Regular
Session, gathering sixty-one coauthors on its way through the legislative process and
achieving final passage with unanimous committee and floor votes in favor in both
legislative chambers; and
WHEREAS, it is heartening to the members of the Legislature of Louisiana to see
that carefully crafted laws on public health and safety can contribute to protecting and saving
lives just as the Burke Cobb Act has done, and will likely do again; and
WHEREAS, while legislative bodies may endeavor to protect health and safety, the
true power to save lives in emergency situations rests in the hands of persons such as Bo
Myers who, with a brave spirit and the proper training, took actions on February 18, 2015,
that saved his nephew's life and made him a hero to his family and his community.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend Bo Myers, the "CPR hero" of Zachary, Louisiana, for his heroic actions in saving
the life of his nephew, and does hereby extend to him best wishes for success in all of his
future endeavors.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the legislature does hereby recognize and
commend Sean "Doc" Stanton, first responder class instructor, for capably delivering quality
instruction on CPR at Zachary High School.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the legislature does hereby affirm the vital
importance of training in the simple but lifesaving CPR procedure, and encourages all
Louisianians to undertake CPR training.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to the family of Bo Myers, to Sean "Doc" Stanton, and to Joe LeBlanc, principal of Zachary
High School.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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