NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joined Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday to celebrate Tennessee’s new law requiring all high schools to keep an automated external defibrillator available during classes, athletic practices and games.
Lee signed the legislation earlier this year, but held a formal ceremony Tuesday marking the “Smart Heart Act” at Nashville’s Pearl-Cohn High School. Goodell is in Nashville for the NFL’s spring meetings.
According to the statute, any public school with grades nine through 12 must set, review and rehearse an emergency plan to be ready when students have a cardiac arrest or other life-threatening injury. The law also requires school personnel both on and off the field to have training in both CPR and in using AEDs.
Those are the three requirements the Smart Heart Sports Coalition wants adopted adopted in all 50 states since launching in March 2023. The coalition includes the NFL and other major sports leagues and health advocacy groups trying to prevent high school students from dying of sudden cardiac arrests.
The bodies of 4 men and 2 women were found strangled, piled up in Mexican resort of Acapulco
HK Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Return to Motherland
Feature: Village basketball adds vitality to life, development in China
Villagers Perform Water Drum Dance in Jianhe County, SW China
China to Recruit 67,000 Rural Teachers This Year
Hongniya Village Takes Measures to Boost Rural Revitalization in Shandong
China to Recruit 67,000 Rural Teachers This Year
Hometown of Laura Ingalls Wilder set for a growth spurt
Skill Training Classes Provided for Locals to Boost Employment in Sanjiang, China's Guangxi
What to stream: Lenny Kravitz, South Park, 'Dune: Part 2'
Children Enjoy Summer Vacation Across China