Bill would provide defibrillators for every Arkansas school
March 5, 2009
State would use tobacco tax revenue to buy the medical devices
A bill intended to provide schools in Arkansas with automatic external defibrillators has cleared a state Senate committee. Funding for the program would come from the an increase in state tobacco taxes. Under the proposal, the state Department of Health would buy the AEDs with $1 million the agency is to receive from the tobacco tax increase. Districts would receive one defibrillator for each of their schools.
