Utah State AED Law
Utah State AED Law
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Physician | Physician approval of an AED purchase required. |
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CPR/AED Training | A person who owns or leases an AED shall encourage each person who is likely to use the AED to complete courses on the administration of CPR and the use of an AED. |
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EMS Notification | A commercial owner of a fully automated external defibrillator shall register the ownership and precise location of the defibrillator with the department within 30 days of acquisition of the defibrillator. |
| Maintenance Program | No Current Legislation | |
| Notification of Use | No Current Legislation | |
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| Except as provided in Subsection (3), the following persons are not subject to civil liability for any act or omission relating to preparing to care for, responding to care for, or providing care to, another person who reasonably appears to be in sudden cardiac arrest: (a) a person authorized, under Section 26-8b-201, to administer CPR, who: (i) gratuitously and in good faith attempts to administer or administers CPR to another person; or (ii) fails to administer CPR to another person; (b) a person authorized, under Section 26-8b-201, to use an AED who: (i) gratuitously and in good faith attempts to use or uses an AED; or (ii) fails to use an AED; (c) a person that teaches or provides a training course in administering CPR or using an AED; (d) a person that acquires an AED; (e) a person that owns, manages, or is otherwise responsible for the premises or conveyance where an AED is located; (f) a person who retrieves an AED in response to a perceived or potential sudden cardiac arrest; (g) a person that authorizes, directs, or supervises the installation or provision of an AED; (h) a person involved with, or responsible for, the design, management, or operation of a CPR or AED program; (i) a person involved with, or responsible for, reporting, receiving, recording, updating, giving, or distributing information relating to the ownership or location of an AED under Part 3, AED Databases; or (j) a physician who gratuitously and in good faith: (i) provides medical oversight for a public AED program; or (ii) issues a prescription for a person to acquire or use an AED. |
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| Laws / Legislation | ||
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Date | Summary |
| SB 192 | 2014 | Allows the director of the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services to distribute funds to elementary schools for AEDs. |
| HB 116 | 2013 | Allows a person who owns or leases an AED to register the AED with the local emergency dispatch center via a web-based AED registration form and requires them to report the installation or removal of the device. Requires an emergency medical dispatch center to provide a person who calls to report a sudden cardiac arrest incident with the location of the nearest AED and verbal instructions on using the device. AEDs installed or removed from a private residence, vehicle, mobile, or temporary location are excluded from the registering and reporting requirements. |
| HB 110 | 2010 | Describes the duties of emergency medical dispatch centers, stating that they inform a person who calls to report a potential incident of sudden cardiac arrest of the location of any nearby AED. |
| HB 31 | 2009 | Utah Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survival Act – provides immunity protection and establishes requirements for AED placement. |
| SB 95 | 2003 | Establishes a statewide database for the collection and distribution of information regarding the location of commercially owned fully automated external defibrillators. |
| SB 86 | 2000 | Expands the training programs recognized by the state for fully automated external defibrillators; and extends immunity to health care providers who provide instructions on the use of fully automated external defibrillators. |
| HB 50 | 1999 | Expands Good Samaritan Act. |
| HB 98 | 1998 | Allows trained responders without a license to administer CPR and use an AED. |
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