New BILL Requires CPR
New Jersey has joined the ranks of mandatory high school CPR. Acting Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno signed bill A2072 into effect today, requiring all high students learn CPR and how to use defibrillators in order to graduate.
A student collapsed in June and quick-thinking staff member used CPR to save the student’s life. It was this near catastrophe that spurred this bill into action.
The bipartisan-sponsored bill passed with minimal opposition in June and goes into affect this year.
This is a trend that is happening across the United States, and we’re not complaining. We look forward to the day when we can say that every state in the nation has the same law.
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