The bill creates a new section in chapter 28A.210 RCW that requires each school district, beginning in the 2026-27 school year, to develop a cardiac emergency response plan for each school and each athletic facility on a school campus. Plans must be integrated with local emergency service providers and include evidence-based core elements (for example, those recommended by the American Heart Association or a similar organization). Each plan must designate a cardiac emergency response team made up of school staff (including coaches, school nurses, athletic trainers, teachers, counselors, and administrators); set procedures to activate that team for on-campus cardiac arrests; designate AED installation locations across campus (aiming to place an AED on a person within three minutes of awareness of a cardiac arrest); require AEDs to be clearly signed, unlocked, and easily accessible during the school day and school-sponsored athletic events or practices; require AED testing and maintenance per the manufacturer's operational guidelines; establish a regular training schedule for CPR, first aid, and AED use consistent with American Heart Association or similar guidelines; set at least annual rehearsal dates and require school staff to review and update the plan at least annually; describe coordination with local emergency service providers; and establish procedures for responding to cardiac arrests that occur off-campus during school-sponsored events. Local emergency service providers must be notified of each AED’s type and location. This is a procedural and operational legal change creating a new statutory requirement for planning, training, equipment placement, maintenance, and coordination; it does not create a new crime or specify penalties in the extracted text. The extracted facts do not specify enforcement mechanisms, funding, oversight responsibility, penalties for noncompliance, precise definitions for some referenced terms, the exact frequency for "regular" training beyond alignment with external guidelines, or any requirements for recordkeeping or submission of plans to a state agency.

If enacted, every school district would have to create and on-campus athletic facilities would have to follow a written cardiac emergency response plan starting in the 2026–27 school year that names a staff response team, puts AEDs where someone can get one within about three minutes, keeps AEDs unlocked and clearly signed, tests and maintains them per manufacturer rules, trains staff regularly in CPR/first aid/AED use to evidence-based standards, rehearses the plan at least yearly, and coordinates with local emergency responders — including procedures for school-sponsored events off campus. That will likely lead districts to buy or relocate AEDs, spend staff time on training and drills, set up maintenance schedules, and build closer coordination with local EMS to share AED locations. Most affected are school districts and school staff (coaches, nurses, athletic trainers, teachers, counselors, administrators) who will take on the planning, training, and maintenance work, and local emergency service providers who must be integrated and notified of AED locations. These changes will create ongoing costs for AED purchases, upkeep, and staff time and reduce response time risk for sudden cardiac arrest, but the bill text does not specify funding, enforcement, oversight, exact training frequency, or detailed definitions for evidence-based organizations or local providers, so how districts will pay for and be held to these requirements is unclear.