MN SF2059

School districts must provide one-time CPR and automatic external defibrillator instruction to all students in grades 7-12 beginning in the 2014-2015 school year, replacing the previous encouragement to include such instruction.

Training and instruction do not need to result in CPR certification but must include hands-on psychomotor skills practice and use curricula developed by the American Heart Association, American Red Cross, or nationally recognized evidence-based guidelines.

School districts may utilize community members such as emergency medical technicians, paramedics, police officers, firefighters, and representatives of the Minnesota Resuscitation Consortium to provide instruction, with community members encouraged to donate training resources and materials.

School administrators may waive the CPR curriculum requirement for high school transfer students, absent students, and students with disabilities.

Eliminates the requirement that school districts allocate reserved staff development revenue according to specific percentages (50 percent to school sites, 25 percent district-wide, 25 percent for grants), effective July 1, 2012.