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(a) Commencing with the 2024–25 school year, each local educational agency shall comply with all of the following:(1) Equip each classroom at each of its schoolsites with a trauma kit.
(2) Inspect and replace or replenish each trauma kit, as necessary to maintain the requirements of paragraph (2) of subdivision (c), upon each use and at least once every three years.
(3) (A) In order to ensure public safety, notify, at least once each school year, its employees of the location of the trauma kits and provide them with contact information for training in the use of the trauma kit. For purposes of complying with this notification requirement, a local educational agency may direct its employees to any of the following:
(i) The Stop the Bleed national awareness campaign of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
(ii) The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.
(iii) The American Red Cross.
(iv) The Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care.
(v) Any other partner of the United States Department of Defense.
(vi) A level 1 trauma center or other hospital that provides community-based education regarding trauma care or similar first aid care.
(vii) Other reputable providers of first aid or trauma care training.
(B) A local educational agency is only required to identify one potential source of training, but may choose to identify multiple sources of training, pursuant to subparagraph (A).
(b) (1) Subdivision (b) of Section 1799.102 of the Health and Safety Code, the “Good Samaritan Law,” applies to any lay rescuer or person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency care or treatment by the use of a trauma kit at the scene of an emergency.
(2) A person who renders emergency care or treatment by the use of a trauma kit at the scene of an emergency and who receives compensation as a result of their employment by a local educational agency, or any other private or public employer, but is not compensated to provide emergency medical care, is not providing emergency medical care “for compensation” for purposes of Section 1799.102 of the Health and Safety Code.
(c) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.
(2) “Trauma kit” has the same meaning as defined in Section 19305 of the Health and Safety Code. In addition to the items identified in Section 19305 of the Health and Safety Code, a “trauma kit” may include any or all of the following:
(A) One or more additional tourniquets in sizes that are suitable for younger or smaller pupils.
(B) Gauze, including a clotting agent or similar properties to control bleeding.
(C) A protective capsule to hold the trauma kit’s contents.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to create a private right of action against a local educational agency.
(e) The implementation of this section is contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute.