H. B. 2214


(By Delegate Perdue)
[Introduced January 11, 2006 ; referred to the
Committee on Education then Finance.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-5-15g, relating to requiring the county school boards to train all school personnel in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and blood precaution.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-5-15g , to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

§18-5-15g. Training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and blood precaution.

County boards of education shall provide in-service training on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and blood precaution to all school personnel. For the purposes of this section, "blood precaution" means training in techniques and measures designed to avoid and prevent the transmission of or contamination by, blood born pathogens. The Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Resources, shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three-b, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, to effectuate the purposes of this section.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the county school boards to train all school personnel in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and blood precaution.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.