Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires high school health courses to include instruction on how to stop bleeding using tourniquets, bandages, and other equipment in first aid response kits in Michigan.

Highlights:

• Requires high school health courses to include instruction on how to stop bleeding using the following, including (Sec. 1):

• Tourniquets;

• Bleeding control dressings; 

• Compression bandages;

• Latex-free protective gloves;

• Trauma shears;

• Markers; and

• other equipment in first-aid response kits

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor (Sec. 1).

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