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Vt. Gov. Shumlin Signs New CPR Law Allows High School Students to Learn CPR Before Graduating

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WILLISTON, Vt. -

A new Vermont law will help save lives and it started with one influential 8th grader.

In February, Williston Central School 8th grader, Tommy Watson, set out to train 100 people in CPR.

"It's pretty intense I have to say. Like, a lot of emotions. But, it's pretty cool knowing that CPR does work and it's not just something that they say could help someone. It actually does work and it's proven," Tommy Watson, 8th grader at Williston Central School said.

Watson trained Governor Peter Shumlin right before he signed a new law that would give every Vermont student the opportunity to learn CPR before they graduate from High School.

That means thousands of people will be trained each year.

Watson says it's important because hundreds of thousand of people suffer from sudden cardiac arrest.

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