Date of enactment: May 10, 2010
2009 Assembly Bill 725 Date of publication*: May 24, 2010
2009 WISCONSIN ACT 273
AN ACT to amend 119.04 (1); and to create 118.076 of the statutes; relating 
to: providing instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiocerebral 
resuscitation and about automated external defibrillators to high school
pupils.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 118.076 of the statutes is created to read:
118.076 Lifesaving skills instruction. (1) In this
section, “automatic external defibrillator” has the meaning
given in s. 440.01 (1) (ad).
(2) Beginning in the 2011−12 school year, each
school board operating high school grades, the operator
of each charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r)
that operates high school grades, and the governing body
of each private school that operates high school grades
shall do all of the following:
(a) Offer instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
and cardiocerebral resuscitation to pupils enrolled in
the high school grades in the school district, charter
school, or private school. The school board, operator of
the charter school, or governing body of the private
school shall use either of the following, and shall incorporate
into the instruction the psychomotor skills necessary
to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiocerebral
resuscitation:
1. An instructional program developed by the American
Red Cross or the American Heart Association.
2. Nationally recognized, evidence−based guidelines
for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiocerebral
resuscitation.
(b) Provide instruction about automated external
defibrillators to pupils enrolled in the high school grades
in the school district, charter school, or private school.
SECTION 1m. 119.04 (1) of the statutes, as affected
by 2009 Wisconsin Acts 60 and 96, is amended to read:
119.04 (1) Subchapters IV, V and VII of ch. 115, ch.
121 and ss. 66.0235 (3) (c), 66.0603 (1m) to (3), 115.01
(1) and (2), 115.28, 115.31, 115.33, 115.34, 115.343,
115.345, 115.361, 115.365 (3), 115.38 (2), 115.445,
115.45, 118.001 to 118.04, 118.045, 118.06, 118.07,
118.075, 118.076, 118.10, 118.12, 118.125 to 118.14,
118.145 (4), 118.15, 118.153, 118.16, 118.162, 118.163,
118.164, 118.18, 118.19, 118.20, 118.225, 118.24 (1), (2)
(c) to (f), (6) and (8), 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.30
to 118.43, 118.51, 118.52, 118.55, 120.12 (5) and (15) to
(25), 120.125, 120.13 (1), (2) (b) to (g), (3), (14), (17) to
(19), (26), (34), (35), (37), (37m), and (38), 120.14,
120.21 (3), and 120.25 are applicable to a 1st class city
school district and board.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES 2007−08 : Effective date of acts. “Every act 
and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s partial
veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take 
effect on the day after its date of publication as designated” by the secretary of 
state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date 
of enactment].