Last progress July 22, 2025 (4 months ago)
Introduced on July 22, 2025 by Angela Deneece Alsobrooks
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
This bill aims to prevent heat-related injuries and deaths among student athletes. It requires colleges with athletic programs and high schools that get federal funds to create a heat emergency plan for each sports venue within one year. Plans must cover spotting symptoms, how to respond, and how to use key equipment like AEDs and cold-water immersion tubs. The plan has to be posted in locker rooms, training areas, weight rooms, and outdoor fields; shared with local emergency responders; put on the school’s website; and practiced in person each year by athletes, trainers, team doctors, coaches, safety staff, and others involved . The Education Department must also alert schools to federal funds that can help with training and buying equipment to prevent and treat heat illness for students and staff . The bill is inspired by preventable heat illness cases, including the death of Jordan McNair, and notes that quick action and proper planning can save lives .
Key recommendations include using weather and heat stress guidelines, keeping an AED within three minutes of each venue, and listing AED locations in the plan. Schools can temporarily adjust requirements if a facility is undergoing major construction that affects the plan’s setup .