Indiana AED Laws and Legislation
Find out more about Indiana AED laws and pending Indiana AED legislation. Learn what legislators in Indiana are doing to mandate state requirements for the placement of AEDs, including laws to protect organizations that purchase an AED.
An AED Law can empower individuals to train and be prepared to use an automated external defibrillator to save lives. Good Samaritan laws can protect those who use an AED to help a victim. State AED laws that mandate AED installation in proportion to the population of a public facility could increase survival rates.
Research shows that the availability of an automated external defibrillator (AED) in schools, hotels, recreation and sports facilities, assisted living communities, public buildings, high rises, businesses, and communities, dramatically increases the survival rate for a victim of sudden cardiac arrest.
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AED laws in this state. This information is updated continuously.
| Bill No. | Effective Date | Sponsor | Summary | Public Law Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SR 3 | Senator Patricia L. Miller | Honoring six staff members of Lowell Elementary School. | ||
| SCR 22 | Senator Michael A. Delph | Recognizing John Fair as a cardiac arrest survivor. | ||
| HB 1172 | Representative Peggy M. Welch | Various professions and occupations. Codifies the uniform emergency volunteer health practitioners act to provide a procedure for recognizing other states' licenses for health practitioners who volunteer to provide assistance during an emergency requiring significant health care assistance. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to form a nonprofit corporation to establish and operate an umbilical cord blood bank. Requires the nonprofit corporation to establish an umbilical cord blood donation initiative to promote public awareness concerning the medical benefits of umbilical cord blood. Beginning July 1, 2008, and until June 30, 2009, requires a home health... | 134 | |
| SB 176 | 07/01/2011 | Senator Patricia L. Miller | Teacher training. Requires an applicant for an initial teaching license to be trained and certified in the use of an automated external defibrillator. Requires, after June 30, 2012, an applicant for the renewal of a teaching license to complete training and obtain certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, removing a foreign body causing an obstruction in an airway, the Heimlich maneuver, and the use of an automated external defibrillator. Provides that a school nurse, teacher, or other employee of a school is not liable for damages for providing emergency assistance to another person in the course of the nurse's or employee's employment unless the act or omission constitutes gross... | 146 |
| HB 1052 | 07/01/2008 | Representative Timothy Neese | Motorist duties at accident scenes and operating while intoxicated offenses. Requires an examination for a learner's permit to test the applicant's knowledge of the duty to stop and provide assistance. Provides that the law requiring a driver involved in an accident to stop at the accident scene, notify the appropriate law enforcement agency, and render reasonable assistance applies if the accident results in the entrapment of a person in a vehicle. (Under current law, the law applies only if the accident results in the injury or death of a person.) Provides that if the driver is physically incapable of notifying the appropriate law enforcement agency or rendering reasonable assistance,... | 126 |
| SB 134 | 07/01/2007 | Senator Patricia L. Miller | Automated external defibrillators in health clubs. Requires that before July 1, 2008 the owner or operator of a health club: (1) have a defibrillator available on the health club premises; (2) employ at least one individual who is trained to use the defibrillator and administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation; (3) have a trained employee on the health club premises during business hours when staff is present at the health club; (4) meet certain requirements if staff are not on the premises; (5) post a sign indicating the location of the defibrillator; and (6) comply with other defibrillator requirements. Provides that a person who violates the health club defibrillator requirements commits... | 129 |
| HB 1106 | 07/01/2006 | Representative Suzanne Crouch | Automatic external defibrillators. Allows certain persons who provides emergency medical services to use an automated external defibrillator without requiring a certificate. Removes: (1) the use of an automatic or semiautomatic defibrillator from the definition of basic life support; and (2) the requirement that a person or entity that acquires a defibrillator ensure that the users have completed certain courses and have enlisted a physician for medical direction. | |
| SB 568 | 04/26/2005 | Senator Patricia L. Miller | Birthing centers. Requires birthing centers and abortion clinics to be licensed by the state department of health. Excludes a birthing center from the definition of an ambulatory outpatient surgical center. | 96 |
| SB 188 | 07/01/2004 | Senator Beverly Gard | Birth problems registry and cancer registry. Allows the state department of health to record certain nonmalignant tumors and diseases in the cancer registry. Requires ambulatory outpatient surgical centers and health facilities to report to the cancer registry. Changes the date by which the state department must publish an annual report to December 31. Includes pervasive developmental disorders and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders as birth problems and requires these disorders to be recorded in the birth problems registry if recognized in a child before the child is five years of age. Changes the age at which a birth problem may be recognized and recorded in the birth problems registry... | 17 |
| HB 1271 | 07/01/2003 | Mays | Immunity for defibrillator instructors. Grants immunity from civil liability to certain licensed physicians or the instructor of a person who renders emergency care using an automatic external defibrillator, if the licensed physician or instructor's act or omission does not amount to gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. | 84 |
| SB 363 | 07/01/2003 | Senator Brandt Hershman | Immunity for defibrillator instructors. Grants immunity from civil liability to certain licensed physicians or the instructor of a person who renders emergency care using an automatic external defibrillator, if the licensed physician or instructor's act or omission does not amount to gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. | 91 |
| SB 216 | 05/07/2003 | Senator Thomas Wyss | Statewide mutual aid program. Allows public safety training board members to appoint designees to represent them at board proceedings. Makes changes to permit the differentiation of intermediate and basic advanced levels of emergency medical technician certification in addition to the levels currently in use. Establishes a detailed disciplinary process for offenses committed by certified individuals. Creates the emergency medical services fund. Provides for the regulation of emergency medical dispatch agencies and personnel. Provides for a statewide mutual aid program that allows a city, town, county, or township to request assistance from another unit in managing disaster response or... | 205 |
