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HB27

HB27: CPR Training in Schools and Major Emergency Care

Last scannedAug 22, 2026, 12:25 AM

In one sentence

This law requires the Department of Education to create a hands-only CPR curriculum for public schools and gives state officials authority to designate hospitals capable of treating major emergencies like heart attacks.

What it does

  • Requires the Department of Education to adopt curricula teaching students hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
  • Allows certified instructors, emergency medical staff, or teachers with current certificates to teach this CPR class.
  • Updates school health education rules by removing CPR from the list of topics that are only encouraged for districts.
  • Defines a 'major emergency' in state law to include heart attacks and strokes.
  • Gives the Department authority to create special designations for hospitals based on their ability to treat major emergencies.

Who it affects

  • Public school students who will receive CPR instruction at grade levels chosen by the department.
  • The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, which must write the new curriculum.
  • Hospitals and clinics that may apply for special designations to treat major emergencies.

Limits and unknowns

  • The Department of Education must decide which specific grade levels are required to take the CPR class.
  • Schools only need to offer the instruction if it is 'practicable' for them to do so.
  • Sections regarding school curriculum and emergency care definitions will not start until July 1, 2027.

Plain language

Terms to know

Hands-only CPR
A method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation using chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing, as required by the new curriculum.
Major emergency
A serious medical event defined by this law to include heart attacks and strokes.

Official record

Sources

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Official summary

MEDICAL MAJOR EMERGENCIES; CPR CURRICULUM An Act relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation education in public schools; relating to the duties of the Department of Education and Early Development; relating to medical care for major emergencies; and providing for an effective date.

Official activity

Bill history

  1. (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW SEE CHAPTER3123
  2. (H) LAW W/O GOV SIGNATURE 6/18 CH 10 SLA 263123
  3. (H) 10:44 A.M. 6/1/26 TRANSMITTED TO GOVERNOR3040
  4. (H) TITLE CHANGE: SCR 332946
  5. (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE2946
  6. (H) CONCUR AM OF (S) Y27 N132945
  7. (H) CONCUR MESSAGE TAKEN UP2945
  8. (H) CONCUR MESSAGE READ AND HELD2758
  9. (S) VERSION: CSHB 27(HSS) AM S(EFD ADD S)2738
  10. (S) TRANSMITTED TO (H) AS AMENDED2738
  11. (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): CLAMAN2725
  12. (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE2717
  13. (S) PASSED Y20 N-2716
  14. (S) READ THE THIRD TIME CSHB 27(HSS) AM S(EFD ADD S)2716
  15. (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC2716
  16. (S) ...CHANGES TITLE OF LEGISLATION2715
  17. (S) AM NO 1 ADOPTED UC2715
  18. (S) READ THE SECOND TIME2714
  19. (S) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/17/20262714
  20. (S) FN2: (DOH)2619

Changes

Amendments

1 stored

AM 1

This amendment adds rules requiring the state Department of Education to create a curriculum for teaching hands-only CPR in public schools.