WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2020 REGULAR SESSION

Committee Substitute
for

House Bill 4497
BY DELEGATES MANDT, ATKINSON, CRISS, HILL,
LOVEJOY, MILLER, LINVILLE, WORRELL, HORNBUCKLE,
ROHRBACH AND ELLINGTON
[Originating in the Committee on Finance;
February 21, 2020.]

 CS for HB 4497
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section,

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designated §18-2-25b, relating to requiring the West Virginia Secondary School Activities

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Commission to require that an automated external defibrillator device, as well as a posted

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emergency action plan, be present on the school or event grounds during the duration of

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all extramural high school or middle school athletic events and practices under the control,

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supervision and regulation of the commission, and that all school sports personnel be

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trained in the use of the device; requiring that the automated external defibrillator device

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on the school or event grounds be located as close to the event or practice activity as is

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possible; requiring that rules be proposed for promulgation by the state board of education;

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and naming the law The Alex Miller Law.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
§18-2-25b. Defibrillator required at certain events.
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In memory of Alex Miller, a Roane County football player who collapsed and died during
a school football game, this law shall be known as The Alex Miller Law.

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The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission shall require that an

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automated external defibrillator device, as well as a posted emergency action plan, be present

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on the school or event grounds during the duration of all extramural high school or middle school

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athletic events and practices under the control, supervision and regulation of the commission, and

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that all school sports personnel be trained in the use of the device. Furthermore, the automated

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external defibrillator device on the school or event grounds shall be located as close to the event

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or practice activity as is possible.

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The commission shall propose rules for promulgation by the state board in accordance
with the provisions of §29A-3B-1 et seq. of this code to implement the provisions of this section.

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