SENATE BILL NO. 1080

2007 Legislation

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SENATE BILL NO. 1080 – First aid, volunteer administer

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Bill Status


S1080..........................................................by EDUCATION
VOLUNTEERS - FIRST AID - Amends existing law to provide immunity from civil
liability to volunteers for administering first aid at a competitive
sporting event.
                                                                        
02/02    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/05    Rpt prt - to Jud

Bill Text


                                                                        
                                                                        
  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   First Regular Session - 2007
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                                                                        
                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1080
                                                                        
                                   BY EDUCATION COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY; AMENDING SECTION 5-330,  IDAHO  CODE,  TO
  3        PROVIDE  IMMUNITY  FROM CIVIL LIABILITY TO VOLUNTEERS WHO ADMINISTER FIRST
  4        AID AT A COMPETITIVE SPORTING EVENT AND TO  DEFINE  "COMPETITIVE  SPORTING
  5        EVENT."
                                                                        
  6    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
  7        SECTION  1.  That  Section  5-330,  Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  8    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  9        5-330.  IMMUNITY OF PERSONS GIVING FIRST AID FROM DAMAGE CLAIM.  (1)  That
 10    no  action  shall  lie or be maintained for civil damages in any court of this
 11    state against any person or persons, or group of persons, who in  good  faith,
 12    being  at  a competitive sporting event, or being at, or stopping at the scene
 13    of an accident, offers and administers first aid or medical attention  to  any
 14    person  or  persons  injured  in  such  accident or competitive sporting event
 15    unless it can be shown that the person or persons  offering  or  administering
 16    first  aid,  is  guilty  of  gross negligence in the care or treatment of said
 17    injured person or persons or has treated them in a grossly  negligent  manner.
 18    The  immunity described herein shall cease upon delivery of the injured person
 19    to either a generally recognized hospital for treatment of ill or injured per-
 20    sons, or upon assumption of treatment in the office or facility of any  person
 21    undertaking  to treat said injured person or persons, or upon delivery of said
 22    injured person or persons into custody of an ambulance attendant.
 23        (2)  As used in this section, "competitive sporting  event"  means  sports
 24    conducted  as  part  of a program sponsored by a public or private school that
 25    provides instruction in kindergarten through grade twelve (12) or at a  public
 26    or private college or university or at a community college.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                             RS 16793

This legislation limits the liability faced by any volunteer who
assists an injured person or persons at a competitive sporting
event and promotes this sort of volunteerism.


                          FISCAL IMPACT

None. 



Contact  
Name:  John Goedde
Phone: 322-1322


STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                         S 1080