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Read. Follow. Verify.North Carolina requires AEDs and CPR training in all public schools with $4.1 million in funding
Last action · May 8, 2025: Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate action)Sponsors: Wyatt Gable and 16 others
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What This Bill Would Do
North Carolina requires every , charter school, regional school, and public secondary school to install at least one automated external defibrillator (AED) in an athletic facility or area and provide personnel training in AED use and CPR starting July 1, 2025.
- House Bill 886 was introduced in the North Carolina General Assembly during the 2025-2026 session by Representative Gable. context
- Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are portable electronic devices used to treat sudden cardiac arrest through defibrillation. context
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Public school units and charter schools
Governing bodies must develop policies for AED installation and maintenance, place at least one AED in each school's athletic facility, and ensure personnel complete training.
School personnel
Personnel are required to complete an appropriate training course in the use of AEDs, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and first aid.
Department of Public Instruction
The department receives a $4,100,000 appropriation, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction is responsible for allocating funds to school units.
Key Facts
- The State Board of Education must adopt rules for installing, maintaining, and using at least one AED in the athletic facility or area of each public school, along with personnel training courses in AED use, CPR, and first aid.
- Local boards of education, boards of trustees, charter schools, regional schools, and the Board of Governors must develop policies for AED installation, maintenance, and use conforming to State Board rules.
- The legislation appropriates $4,100,000 in nonrecurring funds from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
- The Superintendent of Public Instruction allocates the appropriation on a first-come, first-served basis to school unit governing bodies in amounts sufficient to buy and install one AED per school and train personnel.
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- The rules must include provisions for proper maintenance and testing of AEDs, coordination with licensed professionals, and coordination with local emergency medical systems.
- The act takes effect July 1, 2025, and applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.
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Procedural history
17 actions- May 8, 2025SenateRef To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
- May 8, 2025SenatePassed 1st Reading
- May 8, 2025SenateSpecial Message Received From House
- May 8, 2025HouseSpecial Message Sent To Senate
- May 7, 2025HouseOrdered Engrossed
- May 7, 2025HousePassed 3rd Reading
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- May 7, 2025HousePassed 2nd Reading
- May 7, 2025HouseAmend Adopted A2
- May 7, 2025HouseAmend Adopted A1
- May 7, 2025HouseAdded to Calendar
- May 7, 2025HouseCal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- May 7, 2025HouseReptd Fav
- May 6, 2025HouseRe-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- May 6, 2025HouseWithdrawn From Com
- Apr 14, 2025HouseRef to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Apr 14, 2025HousePassed 1st Reading
- Apr 9, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
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One-Time Capital and Training Allocation
The bill pairs a universal school safety mandate with a targeted, one-time $4,100,000 General Fund appropriation distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance75How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz45Current news / social attention level
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