PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 601 PRINTER'S NO. 2084
No. 558 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY CIVERA, MICOZZIE, ADOLPH, FLICK AND LEDERER,
FEBRUARY 7, 2001
AS RE-REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 4, 2001
AN ACT
1 Requiring all child day-care facilities in this Commonwealth to
2 have one or more persons competent in first aid techniques
3 and under certain circumstances cardiopulmonary resuscitation
4 (CPR) at the facility when one or more children are in care.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Short title.
8 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Child-Care
9 First Aid and CPR Act.
10 Section 2. Definitions.
11 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
12 have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
13 context clearly indicates otherwise:
14 "Child day-care center." The premises in which care is
15 provided at any one time for seven or more children unrelated to
16 the operator.
17 "Department." The Department of Public Welfare of the
18 Commonwealth and its authorized agents.
1 "Facility." A child day-care center, family child day-care
2 home or group child day-care home.
3 "Family child day-care home." A home other than the child's
4 own home, operated for profit or not for profit, in which child
5 day care is provided at any one time to four, five or six
6 children unrelated to the operator.
7 "Group child day-care home." The premises in which care is
8 provided at one time for more than six but fewer than 16 older
9 school-age-level children or more than six but fewer than 13
10 children of another age level who are unrelated to the operator.
11 The term includes a facility located in a residence or another
12 premises.
13 Section 3. Staffing.
14 (a) Requirement.--Each child day-care center, group child
15 day-care home and family child day-care home, as regulated under
16 55 Pa. Code Chs. 3270 (relating to child day care centers), 3280
17 (relating to group child day care homes) and 3290 (relating to
18 family child day care homes), shall have:
19 (1) One or more persons who hold a current certificate
20 of completion of pediatric first aid training at the facility
21 when day-care children are in care. Such pediatric first aid
22 training shall include choke-saving and rescue breathing
23 techniques.
24 (2) At least one person at the facility who holds a
25 current certificate of completion of training in infant and
26 child cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when a child whose
27 child health physician identifies that the child has an
28 increased risk for needing heart resuscitation is in care at
29 the facility. The requirement under this paragraph shall be
30 in addition to the current requirement for infant and child
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1 CPR as it relates to lifeguard training.
2 (b) Training.--
3 (1) Completion of training, including testing of skills
4 and knowledge, shall be documented by the signature and title
5 of a representative of the training entity and shall include
6 the date training was completed. Such training entity shall
7 be a State-licensed or state or nationally certified health
8 professional with pediatric training. Documentation shall be
9 retained in the facility in that person's file.
10 (2) The content of the first aid training shall include
11 the information specified in the current edition of Caring
12 for Our Children, the National Health and Safety Performance
13 Standards for Out-of-Home Child Care, published by the
14 American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health
15 Association and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the
16 United States Department of Health and Human Services. The
17 content of the CPR training shall meet the current pediatric
18 guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency
19 cardiovascular care of the American Heart Association's
20 Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee.
21 (3) Pediatric first aid and CPR training shall be <--
22 (3) CPR TRAINING SHALL BE RENEWED ANNUALLY. <--
23 (4) PEDIATRIC FIRST AID TRAINING SHALL BE renewed at
24 least every three years.
25 Section 4. Applicability.
26 This act shall apply to each facility on the date of the next
27 licensing or certification renewal of that facility or one year,
28 whichever is longer.
29 Section 5. Effective date.
30 This act shall take effect in six months.
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