School boards and charter schools could have to create and implement cardiac emergency response plans that school employees would use when a person goes into cardiac arrest or has a medical emergency on school grounds or during a school event if a new bill in the Mississippi Legislature becomes law.
Under Senate Bill 2349, administrators would have to work with local emergency service providers to implement the cardiac emergency response plan into the school’s protocols. Each school would have to create a cardiac emergency response team that would respond to people undergoing life-threatening medical conditions while on school grounds or at a school-sponsored event or sport.
“You work with drills, updating it once a year so that everybody knows what to do in a school system,” Sen. Nicole Boyd, R-Oxford, said on the Senate floor on March 6.
The Senate passed S.B. 2349 by a 52-0 vote on March 6. The House unanimously passed an amended version of the bill on April 4 that corrected a grammatical error and added that schools and boards of education can accept money, gifts and donations of supplies.
Runoff Election Date Change
Mississippi could move its primary runoff elections to take place four weeks after a primary election instead of the current three weeks under Senate Bill 2144.
“This is to allow our circuit clerks and everyone else to have time to get the previous election certified and get ballots printed,” Sen. Jeremy England, R-Vancleave, said on the Senate floor on March 7.
The Senate passed the bill on March 7 by a 49-0 vote. The House passed an amended version of the bill on April 4 by a 108-3 vote with a revised title. S.B. 2144 heads back to the Senate for approval.
Free Museum, State Park Admission for Foster-Care Kids
Children in the foster-care system and their family members could soon gain free admission to publicly funded state parks and museums under Senate Bill 2244.
The bill also applies to kids under the age of 21 who are either in the legal custody of the Mississippi Department of Child Protective Services, live
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