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SENATE RESOLUTION

  
 
2    WHEREAS, Passed in 2014,  PA 98-0632, also known as 
3Lauren's Law, requires all Illinois high schools and secondary 
4schools to teach CPR and AED instruction and training as part 
5of their health curriculum; and
  
 
6    WHEREAS, The CPR and AED training must be incorporated 
7into the health curriculum of a school, but it is not required 
8to be within that specific course time; the law does not 
9specify content, but both the American Red Cross and the 
10American Heart Association require that content must cover

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