Bill Text: CA AB1639 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pupil health: The Eric Paredes Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 792, Statutes of 2016. [AB1639 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1639-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1639	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 14, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 29, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 9, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Maienschein
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonilla, Brough, and Dodd)
   (  Coauthor:   Senator  
Bates   Coauthors:   Senators  
Anderson   and Bates  )

                        JANUARY 7, 2016

   An act to add Article  14   13.5 
(commencing with Section  33480)   33479) 
to Chapter 3 of Part 20 of Division 2 of Title 2 of the Education
Code, relating to pupil safety.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1639, as amended, Maienschein. Pupil health:  The Eric
Paredes  Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act.
   Existing law requires a school district, charter school, or
private school that elects to offer an athletic program to comply
with certain requirements relating to pupil safety, including, among
other things, removing an athlete who is suspected of sustaining a
concussion or head injury from an athletic activity.
   This bill would create the  Eric Paredes  Sudden Cardiac
Arrest Prevention Act and would require the State Department of
Education to post on its Internet Web site guidelines, videos, and an
information sheet on sudden cardiac arrest symptoms and warning
signs, and other relevant materials relating to sudden cardiac
arrest. The bill would require a pupil in any public school,
including a charter school, or private school that elects to conduct
athletic activities, and the pupil's parent or guardian, to sign and
return an acknowledgment of receipt of an information sheet on sudden
cardiac arrest symptoms and warning signs each school year before
the pupil participates in an athletic activity, as specified. The
bill would require an athletic director, coach, or athletic trainer
to remove from participation a pupil who passes out or faints while
participating in or immediately following an athletic activity, and
would require a coach of an athletic activity to complete a sudden
cardiac arrest training course every other school year. The bill
would impose penalties, on and after July 1, 2019, for a violation of
the provision requiring a coach to complete a sudden cardiac arrest
training course, as specified. The bill would make the act's
provisions operative on July 1, 2017.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Article  14   13.5 
(commencing with Section  33480)   33479) 
is added to Chapter 3 of Part 20 of Division 2 of Title 2 of the
Education Code, to read:

      Article  14.   13.5.    The Eric
Paredes  Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act


    33480.   33479.   This act shall be
known, and may be cited, as the  Eric Paredes  Sudden
Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act.
    33481.  33479.1.   For purposes of this
article, the following definitions apply:
   (a) "Athletic activity" includes all of the following:
   (1) Interscholastic athletics.
   (2) An athletic contest or competition, other than interscholastic
athletics, that is sponsored by a school, including cheerleading and
club-sponsored sports activities.
   (3) Noncompetitive cheerleading that is sponsored by a school.
   (4) Practices, interscholastic practices, and scrimmages for all
of the activities listed under paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive.
   (b) "School" means a public school, including a charter school, or
private school that elects to conduct athletic activities.
    33482.   33479.2.   (a) The department
shall post on its Internet Web site guidelines, videos, and an
information sheet on sudden cardiac arrest symptoms and warning
signs, and other relevant materials to inform and educate pupils and
parents, and to train coaches about the nature and warning signs of
sudden cardiac arrest, including the risks associated with continuing
to play or practice after experiencing fainting or seizures during
exercise, unexplained shortness of breath, chest pains, dizziness,
racing heart rate, or extreme fatigue.
   (b) Materials posted by the department on its Internet Web site
may include, but are not necessarily limited to, those developed or
used for sudden cardiac arrest education and coaches training by the
National Federation of High School Associations, the Eric Paredes
Save A Life Foundation, or the California Interscholastic Federation.

   (c) School districts and schools are encouraged to post on their
Internet Web sites the information and material required to be posted
by the department pursuant to subdivision (a) to give pupils,
parents, and coaches ready access to the information.
    33483.   33479.3.  Each school year,
before a pupil participates in an athletic activity governed by the
California Interscholastic Federation, the school shall collect and
retain a copy of the sudden cardiac arrest information sheet required
by the California Interscholastic Federation for that pupil. Before
a pupil participates in an athletic activity not governed by the
California Interscholastic Federation, the pupil and the pupil's
parent or guardian shall sign and return to the pupil's school an
acknowledgment of receipt and review of the information sheet posted
on the department's Internet Web site pursuant to subdivision (a) of
Section  33482.   33479.2. 
    33484.   33479.4.   A school may hold
an informational meeting before the start of each athletic season for
all ages of competitors regarding the symptoms and warning signs of
sudden cardiac arrest. In addition to pupils, parents, coaches, and
other school officials, informational meetings may include
physicians, pediatric cardiologists, and athletic trainers.
    33485.   33479.5.   (a) A pupil who
passes out or faints while participating in or immediately following
an athletic activity, or who is known to have passed out or fainted
while participating in or immediately following an athletic activity,
shall be removed from participation at that time by the athletic
director, coach, or athletic trainer.
   (b) A pupil who exhibits any of the other symptoms of sudden
cardiac arrest, as described in subdivision (a) of Section 
33482,   33479.2, during an athletic activity, may
be removed from participation by an athletic trainer, if the athletic
trainer reasonably believes that the symptoms are cardiac related.
In the absence of an athletic trainer, any coach who observes any of
the symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest shall notify the parent or
guardian of the pupil so that the parent or guardian can determine
what treatment, if any, the pupil should seek.
   (c) A pupil who is removed from play under this section shall not
be permitted to return to participate in an athletic activity until
the pupil is evaluated and cleared to return to participate in
writing by a physician and surgeon, or a nurse practitioner or
physician assistant practicing in accordance with standardized
procedures or protocols developed by the supervising physician and
surgeon and the nurse practitioner or physician assistant, as
applicable.
   (d) This section does not apply to a pupil engaging in an athletic
activity during the regular schoolday or as part of a physical
education course required pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section
51220 unless it constitutes a practice, interscholastic practice, or
scrimmage pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section
 33481.   33479.1. 
    33486.   33479.6.   (a) A coach of an
athletic activity shall complete the sudden cardiac arrest training
course specified in Section  33482   33479.2
 and shall retake the training course every two years
thereafter.
   (b) A coach of an athletic activity shall not be eligible to coach
an athletic activity until the coach completes the training course
required under subdivision (a).
    33487.   33479.7.   On and after July
1, 2019, a coach who violates Section  33486  
33479.6  shall be subject to suspension from coaching any
athletic activity until completion of the required training.
    33488.   33479.8.   The sponsors of
youth athletic activities are encouraged to follow the guidelines
specified in this article.
    33489.   33479.9.   This article is
operative on July 1, 2017.