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type: "Bill"
title: "Public elementary & secondary schools; cardiac emergency response or emergency action plans."
description: "Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response or emergency action plans required. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) or an athletic emergency action plan (EAP), as those terms are defined in the bill, that addresses the appropriate use of school personnel to respond to incidents involving an individual who is experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency while on school grounds and, in the event that such school has an athletic department or organized athletic program, while attending or participating in an athletic practice or event. The bill requires each such CERP or athletic EAP to integrate nationally recognized evidence-based core elements and nationally recognized evidence-based guidelines and to integrate certain additional provisions and guidelines, including those relating to establishing a cardiac emergency response team, activating such team in response to a sudden cardiac event, and integrating the CERP or athletic EAP into the local community's emergency medical services response protocols. This bill is identical to HB 1695."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 817"
citation: "Virginia SB 817 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron R. Rouse"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-12-30"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d4d7762-1ebd-4953-806b-ece993b3bb5b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB817"
source_hash: "679cdc624e920321a9278014c05c9311f162a5d28f60be2128b338d1cdff0b35"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 817 (2025) — Public elementary & secondary schools; cardiac emergency response or emergency action plans.
Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response or emergency action plans required. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) or an athletic emergency action plan (EAP), as those terms are defined in the bill, that addresses the appropriate use of school personnel to respond to incidents involving an individual who is experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency while on school grounds and, in the event that such school has an athletic department or organized athletic program, while attending or participating in an athletic practice or event. The bill requires each such CERP or athletic EAP to integrate nationally recognized evidence-based core elements and nationally recognized evidence-based guidelines and to integrate certain additional provisions and guidelines, including those relating to establishing a cardiac emergency response team, activating such team in response to a sudden cardiac event, and integrating the CERP or athletic EAP into the local community's emergency medical services response protocols. This bill is identical to HB 1695.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1012058.PDF)
2. **Appropriations Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1045447.PDF)
3. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074128.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1056312.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **360** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Aaron R. Rouse — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-12-30** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101340D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-12-30** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB817)
- **2025-01-16** Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-23** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-27** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-28** Engrossed by Senate
- **2025-01-29** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Assigned Approps sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Committee substitute printed 25107022D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB817)
- **2025-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13** Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-13** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-13** Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB817ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB817)
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 382 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d4d7762-1ebd-4953-806b-ece993b3bb5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).