President Joe Biden signs HEARTS Act of 2024, which provides more CPR training as well as automated external defibrillators in schools

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin (3) leaves the field after an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, in Foxborough, Mass. Hamlin was in critical condition early Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, after the Bills say his heart stopped following a tackle during the Monday Night Football game, which was indefinitely postponed. (AP Photo/Greg M. Cooper, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Buffalo, NY) President Joe Biden signed a bill on Monday to give more automated external defibrillators to schools and to access more training for people to learn CPR. This act is called the Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, and Research, and AED Training in the Schools Act of 2024, or HEARTS, for short. On of those who supported this action was Damar Hamlin, an NFL football player and Pittsburgh area native. Hamlin needed an automated external defibrillator to help him for the cardiac arrest that he suffered during a 2023 NFL football game.