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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3404
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require
the Secretary of Education to provide demonstration grants to local
educational agencies for the purpose of providing instruction and training
in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid to secondary school
students.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 28, 1993
Mr. GUTIERREZ (for himself, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. ACKERMAN, and Mr.
KENNEDY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and Labor
A BILL
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to provide
demonstration grants to local educational agencies for
the purpose of providing instruction and training in
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid to secondary
school students.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cardiopulmonary Re-
suscitation and First Aid School Training Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
Part F of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 is amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘SEC. 4611. CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Not later than 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this section, the Sec-
retary of Education (in this section referred to as the
‘‘Secretary’’) shall provide not less than 10 demonstration
grants to local educational agencies for the purpose of pro-
viding 
instruction, 
training, 
and 
programs 
in
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid to secondary
school students.
‘‘(b) APPLICATION.—The Secretary may provide a
grant to a local educational agency under subsection (a)
only if such agency submits to the Secretary an applica-
tion which contains such information as the Secretary may
reasonably require.
‘‘(c) USE OF AMOUNTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A local educational agency
shall use amounts received from a grant under sub-
section (a) to establish a program to provide instruc-
tion and training programs, including the purchas-
ing of equipment, in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
and first aid to students at secondary schools under
the control or direction of such agency.
‘‘(2) CONDUCT
OF
PROGRAM.—In conducting
the program established under paragraph (1), the
local educational agency shall ensure that—
‘‘(A) the program is carried out in accord-
ance with appropriate requirements relating to
instruction and training in cardiopulmonary re-
suscitation and first aid as recommended by na-
tional guidelines and standards based on the
most current scientific research available such
as the requirements established by the Amer-
ican Red Cross or the American Heart Associa-
tion;
‘‘(B) individuals providing such instruction
and training have successfully completed a
course in such instruction such as the curricu-
lum of the American Red Cross, National Safe-
ty Council, or the American Heart Association;
‘‘(C) to the extent practicable, each stu-
dent at a secondary school under the control or
direction of such agency has been trained to
provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first
aid as a result of participation in such program
prior to graduation; and
‘‘(D) teachers at such secondary school
also 
receive 
instruction 
and 
training 
in