1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; clarifying CPR training and instruction requirements; 
1.3 	striking the requirement to allocate portions of reserved staff development 
1.4 	revenue for particular purposes;amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections 
1.5 	120B.236; 122A.61, subdivision 1.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 120B.236, is amended to read:
1.8 	120B.236 CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AND AUTOMATIC 
1.9 	EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR INSTRUCTION.
1.10 	(a) School districts are encouraged to includemust provide onetime cardiopulmonary 
1.11 	resuscitation and automatic external defibrillator instruction as part of their grade 7 to 12 
1.12 	curriculum for all students in that grade beginning in the 2014-2015 school year and later. 
1.13 	Training and instruction provided under this section need not result in cardiopulmonary 
1.14 	resuscitation certification. Schools offering Cardiopulmonary resuscitation or and
1.15 	automatic external defibrillator instruction must use include cardiopulmonary resuscitation 
1.16 	orand automatic external defibrillator training that has been developed:
1.17 	(1) by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross and incorporate 
1.18 	psychomotor skills to support the instruction; or
1.19 	(2) using nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines for cardiopulmonary 
1.20 	resuscitation and incorporates psychomotor skills to support the instruction.
1.21 	"Psychomotor skills" under this paragraph means hands-on practice to support 
1.22 	cognitive learning; it does not mean cognitive-only instruction and training.
1.23 	(b) School districts may use community members such as emergency medical 
1.24 	technicians, paramedics, police officers, firefighters, and representatives of the Minnesota 
2.1 	Resuscitation Consortium, the American Heart Association, or the American Red 
2.2 	Cross, among others, to provide instruction and training under this section.  Community 
2.3 	members are encouraged to provide needed training and instructional resources such as 
2.4 	cardiopulmonary resuscitation kits and other materials at no cost to the school districts. A 
2.5 	school administrator may waive this curriculum requirement for a high school transfer 
2.6 	student regardless of whether or not the student previously received instruction under this 
2.7 	section, an enrolled student absent on the day the instruction occurred under this section, 
2.8 	or an eligible student who has a disability. If a school district requests resources, the 
2.9 	Minnesota Resuscitation Consortium must provide them to the district for instruction and 
2.10 	training provided to students under this section.

2.11 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment 
2.12 	and applies to all students entering grades 7 to 12 in the 2014-2015 school year and later.

2.13 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.61, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
2.14 		Subdivision 1.Staff development revenue. A district is required to reserve 
2.15 	an amount equal to at least two percent of the basic revenue under section 126C.10, 
2.16 	subdivision 2, for in-service education for programs under section 120B.22, subdivision 
2.17 	2, for staff development plans, including plans for challenging instructional activities 
2.18 	and experiences under section 122A.60, and for curriculum development and programs, 
2.19 	other in-service education, teachers' workshops, teacher conferences, the cost of 
2.20 	substitute teachers staff development purposes, preservice and in-service education for 
2.21 	special education professionals and paraprofessionals, and other related costs for staff 
2.22 	development efforts. A district may annually waive the requirement to reserve their basic 
2.23 	revenue under this section if a majority vote of the licensed teachers in the district and 
2.24 	a majority vote of the school board agree to a resolution to waive the requirement. A 
2.25 	district in statutory operating debt is exempt from reserving basic revenue according to 
2.26 	this section. Districts may expend an additional amount of unreserved revenue for staff 
2.27 	development based on their needs. With the exception of amounts reserved for staff 
2.28 	development from revenues allocated directly to school sites, the board must initially 
2.29 	allocate 50 percent of the reserved revenue to each school site in the district on a per 
2.30 	teacher basis, which must be retained by the school site until used. The board may 
2.31 	retain 25 percent to be used for district wide staff development efforts. The remaining 
2.32 	25 percent of the revenue must be used to make grants to school sites for best practices 
2.33 	methods. A grant may be used for any purpose authorized under section 120B.22, 
2.34 	subdivision 2, 122A.60, or for the costs of curriculum development and programs, other 
2.35 	in-service education, teachers' workshops, teacher conferences, substitute teachers for 
3.1 	staff development purposes, and other staff development efforts, and determined by 
3.2 	the site professional development team. The site professional development team must 
3.3 	demonstrate to the school board the extent to which staff at the site have met the outcomes 
3.4 	of the program. The board may withhold a portion of initial allocation of revenue if the 
3.5 	staff development outcomes are not being met.

3.6 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2012.