BUFFALO, N.Y. — The vacation week introduced early excellent news for Buffalo Bills security Damar Hamlin, with President Joe Biden signing into regulation a invoice that goals to enhance entry to assets for coronary heart well being across the nation.
Hamlin, 26, who suffered a cardiac arrest throughout a “Monday Night Football” sport on Jan. 2. 2023, advocated for the invoice and labored on it with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). The NFL’s Smart Hearts Coalition and others supported the trouble.
The Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, and Research, and AED Training within the Schools Act of 2024 (HEARTS Act) was formally signed by the president on Monday after the United States Senate voted unanimously to go the invoice on Dec. 10. The House of Representatives handed it in September.
“It’s tremendous dope, man. Shoutout to Senator Schumer. Shoutout to the Smart Hearts Coalition. Shoutout to the American Heart Association and to my Chasing M’s basis,” Hamlin advised ESPN when the Senate handed the invoice. “We all got here collectively to make some legacy off the sector. I at all times wished to, in my life, go away a legacy on the sector, however to have a legacy and have that means and function off the sector.”
The regulation will assist put automated exterior defibrillators in colleges and make CPR coaching extra accessible by making a grant program on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help CPR and AED coaching in elementary and secondary colleges with the acquisition of AEDs, funding AED and CPR coaching, and the event of cardiac emergency response plans.
Hamlin, who’s now a starter for the Bills, was cleared to return to taking part in within the spring of 2023 and performed in his first sport on Oct. 1, 2023, showing within the Bills’ 48-20 win over the Miami Dolphins.
