Bill Text: IA SF2225 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to assessing and reporting of potential concussions or brain injuries in certain extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests. (Formerly SSB 3044.)
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-07 - Fiscal note. HCS. [SF2225 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-SF2225-Amended.html
Senate File 2225 - Reprinted SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3044) (As Amended and Passed by the Senate March 2, 2016) A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to assessing and reporting of potential 2 concussions or brain injuries in certain extracurricular 3 interscholastic athletic contests. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: SF 2225 (3) 86 je/rj/jh PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 280.13C, Code 2016, is amended by adding 1 2 the following new subsection: 1 3 NEW SUBSECTION. 3A. a. The home team in an extracurricular 1 4 interscholastic contest in which high school athletic teams 1 5 participate in a collision sport shall ensure that a contest 1 6 health care professional is present and available to assess 1 7 athletic injuries at such contest. 1 8 b. The home team in an extracurricular interscholastic 1 9 contest in which high school athletic teams participate in a 1 10 contact sport is strongly encouraged to ensure that a contest 1 11 health care professional is present and available to assess 1 12 athletic injuries at such contest. 1 13 c. If an athlete who is a member of a visiting team in an 1 14 extracurricular interscholastic contest at which a contest 1 15 health care professional is present and available to assess 1 16 athletic injuries as provided in this section shows signs, 1 17 symptoms, or behaviors consistent with a concussion or brain 1 18 injury, the contest health care professional shall notify the 1 19 visiting team's athletic director within forty=eight hours 1 20 after the contest occurs. 1 21 d. A contest health care professional must have completed 1 22 specific education or training in sports medicine or emergency 1 23 care and must provide evidence of such specific education or 1 24 training to the high school of the home team prior to serving 1 25 as a contest health care professional. Such education or 1 26 training may be gained through education, continuing education, 1 27 or professional experience. 1 28 e. The department of education shall adopt rules pursuant 1 29 to chapter 17A establishing a process whereby a high school 1 30 may apply for an annual waiver of the requirements of this 1 31 section from the department and receive such a waiver if the 1 32 high school demonstrates a good=faith effort to comply with the 1 33 requirements of this section and an inability to do so due to a 1 34 regional shortage of contest health care professionals. 1 35 f. The department of education, the Iowa high school 2 1 athletic association, and the Iowa girls high school athletic 2 2 union shall establish a process whereby an extracurricular 2 3 interscholastic athletic contest can still take place when 2 4 a contest health care professional who was scheduled to be 2 5 present and available as provided in this section is not able 2 6 to be present and available due to unforeseen circumstances. 2 7 Sec. 2. Section 280.13C, subsection 4, Code 2016, is amended 2 8 by adding the following new paragraphs: 2 9 NEW PARAGRAPH. 0a. "Collision sport" means football, 2 10 soccer, or wrestling. 2 11 NEW PARAGRAPH. 00a. "Contact sport" means a sport that is 2 12 not a collision sport and that is defined as a contact sport by 2 13 the American academy of pediatrics. 2 14 NEW PARAGRAPH. 000a. "Contest health care professional" 2 15 means a physician licensed under chapter 148, physical 2 16 therapist licensed under chapter 148A, or athletic trainer 2 17 licensed under chapter 152D. 2 18 Sec. 3. IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT. Section 25B.2, subsection 2 19 3, shall not apply to this Act. SF 2225 (3) 86 je/rj/jh
