NevadaSchools must plan for heart emergencies and train athletic staff
Public, charter, and private schools must plan for immediate responses to heart emergencies, while certain school staff must receive CPR training and keep certification current.
What it does
School emergency plans must explain how to respond right away to a heart emergency, including when someone is in cardiac arrest.
Public school districts and charter schools must plan CPR training for physical education staff and nonstudent athletic staff. Private high schools must plan training for nonstudent coaches, managers, and trainers.
School emergency planning committees may include a health care provider with specific experience responding to heart emergencies.
Argument forStaff could respond more quickly to a heart emergency if school plans explain what to do right away.
Argument againstSchools may need to spend time and resources updating emergency plans and arranging CPR training and certification for covered staff.
More detail
School emergency planning committees must include a plan for responding right away to heart emergencies. This applies to public schools, including charter schools, and private schools. The law took effect July 1, 2025. The response plan is part of each school’s emergency plan.
School districts, charter schools, and certain private schools must make CPR training plans; covered staff must keep their certification current. Public school district and charter school plans cover licensed education staff who teach or supervise physical education, plus nonstudent coaches, managers, and athletic trainers. Public school district and charter school plans must follow Red Cross or American Heart Association certification guidelines. Private high schools must make a plan for nonstudent coaches, managers, and athletic trainers. Nonstudent people associated with their athletic activities must keep certification current under that plan. The law took effect July 1, 2025. Covered staff must keep current CPR certification according to their school’s plan.
A school emergency planning committee may include a health care provider with relevant heart emergency experience. This applies to public school district, charter school, and private school committees. The provider must have specific skills, training, and experience responding to medical emergencies involving the heart. The law took effect July 1, 2025.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Jun 6Chapter 313.Latest
- Jun 5Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- May 29Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- May 26Senate Amendment No. 614 concurred in. To enrollment.Major
- May 22In Assembly.
- May 21Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- May 20From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- May 19From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 614.) To printer.Minor
- Apr 29Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.Minor
- Apr 28In Senate.
- Apr 25From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Senate.
- Apr 22Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To printer.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 21From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 390.) Dispensed with reprinting.Minor
- Mar 19From printer. To committee.
- Mar 17Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.Introduced
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