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CA SB687

Bill

Status

Engrossed

6/1/2021

Primary Sponsor

Benjamin Hueso

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Origin

Senate

2021-2022 Session

AI Summary

  • Defines "trauma kit" as a first aid response kit containing specified items including one tourniquet endorsed by the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, one bleeding control bandage, protective gloves, a marker, scissors, and instructional documents from approved sources.

  • Extends "Good Samaritan Law" protections to lay rescuers and persons who render emergency care using trauma kits, and applies liability protections to entities providing trauma kit training and certification.

  • Requires persons or entities supplying trauma kits to provide complete information governing use, installation, operation, training, and maintenance of the kits.

  • Mandates that managers of occupied structures with 200+ occupants (or 300+ for assembly buildings) constructed after January 1, 2022, acquire and place at least 6 trauma kits on premises next to automated external defibrillators.

  • Requires building managers to inspect trauma kits every three years, restock after each use, and notify tenants annually of kit locations and provide training information; provides liability protection when these requirements are met.

Legislative Description

Emergency response: trauma kits.

Last Action

August 26 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

8/26/2021

Committee Referrals

Appropriations7/13/2021
Judiciary7/7/2021
Health6/10/2021
Appropriations4/7/2021
Judiciary3/24/2021
Health3/3/2021
Rules2/19/2021

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