City Council support of S.447/H.750, S.456, H.556, and H.572 to ensure high school students receive CPR and AED training, equipping the next generation with life-saving skills

Massachusetts legislators have introduced four bills that seek to make CPR and AED training a requirement in high schools across the commonwealth: S.447/H.750, An Act providing hands only CPR training and the use of defibrillators S.456, An Act requiring instruction in CPR and the use of defibrillators for high school graduation H.556, An Act providing CPR and AED Education for All, AKA The CPR and

AED Education for All Act

H.572, An Act relative to cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automatic defibrillator education in public schools; now therefore be it

ORDERED: That the City Council go on record in support of S.447/H.750, S.456, H.556, and H.572 to ensure high school students receive CPR and AED training, equipping the next generation with life-saving skills; and be it further

ORDERED: That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested to forward a suitably engrossed copy of this Policy Order to the Cambridge State House delegation on behalf of the entire City Council.