Bill Text: CA AB734 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Youth tackle football.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Died on third reading file. [AB734 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB734-Amended.html
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Amended
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January 11, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 734
| Introduced by Assembly Member McCarty |
February 13, 2023 |
An act to add Section 124242.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to youth athletics.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 734, as amended, McCarty.
Youth tackle football.
Existing law requires a youth sports organization that elects to offer an athletic program to comply with specified concussion and sudden cardiac arrest prevention protocols. Existing law, the California Youth Football Act, requires a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program to comply with specified protocols, including a coach receiving certain health-related certification and a parent or guardian of a youth tackle football participant receiving concussion and head injury information and an opioid-related factsheet. The act also requires a youth tackle football league, as defined, to retain information for the tracking of youth sports injuries, as specified.
This bill would, on and after January 1, 2026,
2025, prohibit a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program, or a youth tackle football league, from allowing a person younger than 12 6
years of age to be a youth tackle football participant through the organization or league. On and after January 1, 2027, and January 1, 2029, the bill would not allow a person younger than 10 and 12 years of age, respectively, to be a youth tackle football participant through the organization or league.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 124242.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:124242.5.
(a) On and after January 1,(b) On and after January 1, 2027, a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program, or a youth tackle football league, shall not allow a person younger than 10 years of age to be a youth tackle football participant through the organization or league.
(c) On and after January 1, 2029, a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program, or a youth tackle football league, shall not allow a person younger than 12 years of age to be a youth tackle football participant through the organization or league.
