Arkansas Senate passed defibrillator bill
This article was published March 9, 2009 at 3:39 p.m.
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Senate has approved legislation to provide schools throughout the state with defibrillators.
By a 33-0 vote Monday, the Senate approved the bill requiring the state to provide public schools with automatic, external defibrillators. Sen. Tracy Steele of North Little Rock, the bill's sponsor, says the state would use about $1 million raised from the recently passed tobacco tax increase to pay for the devices.
The bill was named in honor of Antony Hobbs, 17, a basketball player at Parkview High School who died of complications from heart defect that had not been diagnosed prior to his death.
