Bill Text: FL S1696 | 2020 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Student Athletes

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-04 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 7011 [S1696 Detail]

Download: Florida-2020-S1696-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2020                             CS for SB 1696
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Education; and Senators Perry and Cruz
       
       
       
       
       
       581-02644-20                                          20201696c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to student athletes; amending s.
    3         1006.165, F.S.; revising requirements for the
    4         availability of automated external defibrillators on
    5         school grounds; delaying implementation of a
    6         requirement that certain school employees and
    7         volunteers complete specified training; requiring that
    8         a school employee or volunteer who has received the
    9         training be present at certain athletic activities, by
   10         a specified date; requiring the Florida High School
   11         Athletic Association to establish certain requirements
   12         relating to student athlete safety; amending s.
   13         1006.20, F.S.; requiring that a medical evaluation be
   14         performed before a student begins conditioning;
   15         applying requirements related to medical evaluations
   16         to activities occurring outside the school year;
   17         providing an effective date.
   18          
   19  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   20  
   21         Section 1. Section 1006.165, Florida Statutes, is amended
   22  to read:
   23         1006.165 Well-being of students participating in
   24  extracurricular activities Automated external defibrillator;
   25  user training.—
   26         (1)(a) Each public school that is a member of the Florida
   27  High School Athletic Association must have an operational
   28  automated external defibrillator on the school grounds. The
   29  defibrillator must be available in a clearly marked and
   30  publicized location for each athletic contest, practice,
   31  workout, or conditioning session, including those conducted
   32  outside of the school year. Public and private partnerships are
   33  encouraged to cover the cost associated with the purchase and
   34  placement of the defibrillator and training in the use of the
   35  defibrillator.
   36         (b)(2) Beginning June 1, 2021, a school employee or
   37  volunteer with current training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
   38  and use of a defibrillator must be present at each athletic
   39  event during and outside of the school year, including
   40  practices, workouts, and conditioning sessions. The training
   41  received by the employee or volunteer must include Each school
   42  must ensure that all employees or volunteers who are reasonably
   43  expected to use the device obtain appropriate training,
   44  including completion of a course in cardiopulmonary
   45  resuscitation or a basic first aid course that includes
   46  cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, and demonstrated
   47  proficiency in the use of an automated external defibrillator.
   48  All employees or volunteers who may be reasonably expected to
   49  use a defibrillator must complete the training.
   50         (c)(3) The location of each automated external
   51  defibrillator must be registered with a local emergency medical
   52  services medical director. Each individual required to complete
   53  the training under paragraph (b) must be notified annually of
   54  the location of each defibrillator on the school grounds.
   55         (2)(a) In order to better protect student athletes
   56  participating in athletics during hot weather and to avoid
   57  preventable injury or death, the Florida High School Athletic
   58  Association shall:
   59         1. Make training and resources available to each member
   60  school for the effective monitoring of heat stress.
   61         2. Establish guidelines for monitoring heat stress and
   62  identify heat stress levels at which a school must make a
   63  cooling zone available for each outdoor athletic contest,
   64  practice, workout, or conditioning session. Heat stress must be
   65  determined by measuring the ambient temperature, humidity, wind
   66  speed, sun angle, and cloud cover at the site of the athletic
   67  activity.
   68         3. Require member schools to monitor heat stress and modify
   69  athletic activities, including suspending or moving activities,
   70  based on the heat stress guidelines.
   71         4. Establish hydration guidelines, including appropriate
   72  introduction of electrolytes after extended activities or when a
   73  student participates in multiple activities in a day.
   74         5. Establish requirements for cooling zones, including, at
   75  a minimum, the immediate availability of cold-water immersion
   76  tubs or equivalent means to rapidly cool internal body
   77  temperature when a student exhibits symptoms of exertional
   78  heatstroke and the presence of an employee or volunteer trained
   79  to administer cold-water immersion.
   80         6. Require each school’s emergency action plan, as required
   81  by the Florida High School Athletic Association, to include a
   82  procedure for onsite cooling using cold-water immersion or
   83  equivalent means before a student is transported to a hospital
   84  for exertional heatstroke.
   85  
   86  The requirements of this paragraph apply year round.
   87         (b) Each athletic coach and sponsor of extracurricular
   88  activities involving outdoor practices or events shall annually
   89  complete training in exertional heat illness identification,
   90  prevention, and response, including the effective administration
   91  of cooling zones.
   92         (4) The use of automated external defibrillators by
   93  employees and volunteers is covered under ss. 768.13 and
   94  768.1325.
   95         Section 2. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
   96  1006.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   97         1006.20 Athletics in public K-12 schools.—
   98         (2) ADOPTION OF BYLAWS, POLICIES, OR GUIDELINES.—
   99         (c) The FHSAA shall adopt bylaws that require all students
  100  participating in interscholastic athletic competition or who are
  101  candidates for an interscholastic athletic team to
  102  satisfactorily pass a medical evaluation each year prior to
  103  participating in interscholastic athletic competition or
  104  engaging in any practice, tryout, workout, conditioning, or
  105  other physical activity associated with the student’s candidacy
  106  for an interscholastic athletic team, including activities that
  107  occur outside of the school year. Such medical evaluation may be
  108  administered only by a practitioner licensed under chapter 458,
  109  chapter 459, chapter 460, or s. 464.012, and in good standing
  110  with the practitioner’s regulatory board. The bylaws must shall
  111  establish requirements for eliciting a student’s medical history
  112  and performing the medical evaluation required under this
  113  paragraph, which must shall include a physical assessment of the
  114  student’s physical capabilities to participate in
  115  interscholastic athletic competition as contained in a uniform
  116  preparticipation physical evaluation and history form. The
  117  evaluation form must shall incorporate the recommendations of
  118  the American Heart Association for participation cardiovascular
  119  screening and shall provide a place for the signature of the
  120  practitioner performing the evaluation with an attestation that
  121  each examination procedure listed on the form was performed by
  122  the practitioner or by someone under the direct supervision of
  123  the practitioner. The form shall also must contain a place for
  124  the practitioner to indicate if a referral to another
  125  practitioner was made in lieu of completion of a certain
  126  examination procedure. The form must shall provide a place for
  127  the practitioner to whom the student was referred to complete
  128  the remaining sections and attest to that portion of the
  129  examination. The preparticipation physical evaluation form must
  130  shall advise students to complete a cardiovascular assessment
  131  and must shall include information concerning alternative
  132  cardiovascular evaluation and diagnostic tests. Results of such
  133  medical evaluation must be provided to the school. A student is
  134  not eligible to participate, as provided in s. 1006.15(3), in
  135  any interscholastic athletic competition or engage in any
  136  practice, tryout, workout, or other physical activity associated
  137  with the student’s candidacy for an interscholastic athletic
  138  team until the results of the medical evaluation have been
  139  received and approved by the school.
  140         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.