New York state is expected to soon require high schools to train students in CPR. Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law a measure directing the state's commissioner of education to come up with a CPR training curriculum.
Groups like the American Heart Association have pushed to make the training mandatory for all high school students, citing cases in which lives were saved by someone performing CPR. The training curriculum would include instructions on the use of automatic defibrillators. The training session can be conducted in 30 minutes. Sixteen states already require CPR training in schools.
The state's Board of Regents could reject the training curriculum, but it would have to give its reasons to the governor and Legislature.
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