California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California SB945: School curriculum: physical education framework: cardiopulmonary resuscitation: automated external defibrillators.
Status: Chaptered, September 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add Section 33549 to the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. pupil instruction School curriculum: physical education framework: cardiopulmonary resuscitation: automated external defibrillators. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or the governing body of a charter school that requires a course in health education for graduation from high school to include instruction in performing compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), as provided…
From the chaptered text, September 30, 2026:
An act to add Section 33549 to the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. pupil instruction School curriculum: physical education framework: cardiopulmonary resuscitation: automated external defibrillators. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or the governing body of a charter school that requires a course in health education for graduation from high school to include instruction in performing compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), as provided. Existing law also encourages those entities to provide to pupils general information on the use and importance of an automated external defibrillators (AED). Existing law further requires the State Department of Education to provide guidance on how to implement these provisions, including, but not limited to, who may provide instruction. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education. This bill would require the commission, when the physical education framework is next revised after January 1, 2027, to consider including content on the importance, performance, and use of CPR and AEDs in that framework. MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) According to data from Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival …