Bill Text: IA SF2225 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
Senate File 2225 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3044) 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: TLSB 5434SV (2) 86 je/rj 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. The department of education shall adopt rules pursuant 1 22 to chapter 17A establishing a process whereby a high school 1 23 may apply for an annual waiver of the requirements of this 1 24 section from the department and receive such a waiver if the 1 25 high school demonstrates a good=faith effort to comply with the 1 26 requirements of this section and an inability to do so due to a 1 27 regional shortage of contest health care professionals. 1 28 e. The department of education, the Iowa high school 1 29 athletic association, and the Iowa girls high school athletic 1 30 union shall establish a process whereby an extracurricular 1 31 interscholastic athletic contest can still take place when 1 32 a contest health care professional who was scheduled to be 1 33 present and available as provided in this section is not able 1 34 to be present and available due to unforeseen circumstances. 1 35 Sec. 2. Section 280.13C, subsection 4, Code 2016, is amended 2 1 by adding the following new paragraphs: 2 2 NEW PARAGRAPH. 0a. "Collision sport" means football, 2 3 soccer, wrestling, hockey, or lacrosse. 2 4 NEW PARAGRAPH. 00a. "Contact sport" means a sport that is 2 5 not a collision sport and that is defined as a contact sport by 2 6 the American academy of pediatrics. 2 7 NEW PARAGRAPH. 000a. "Contest health care professional" 2 8 means a physician licensed under chapter 148, physical 2 9 therapist licensed under chapter 148A, or athletic trainer 2 10 licensed under chapter 152D. 2 11 Sec. 3. IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT. Section 25B.2, subsection 2 12 3, shall not apply to this Act. 2 13 EXPLANATION 2 14 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 2 15 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 2 16 This bill requires the home team in an extracurricular 2 17 interscholastic contest in which high school athletic teams 2 18 participate in a collision sport to ensure that a contest 2 19 health care professional is present and available to assess 2 20 athletic injuries at such contest. The bill strongly 2 21 encourages the home team in an extracurricular interscholastic 2 22 contest in which high school athletic teams participate in a 2 23 contact sport to ensure that a contest health care professional 2 24 is present and available to assess athletic injuries at such 2 25 contest. 2 26 The bill requires a contest health care professional who 2 27 is present and available to assess athletic injuries at an 2 28 extracurricular interscholastic contest as provided in the bill 2 29 to notify the visiting team's athletic director within 48 hours 2 30 after the contest occurs if an athlete who is a member of the 2 31 visiting team shows signs, symptoms, or behaviors consistent 2 32 with a concussion or brain injury. 2 33 The bill requires the department of education to adopt 2 34 rules establishing a process whereby a high school may 2 35 apply for an annual waiver of the requirements of the bill 3 1 from the department and receive such a waiver if the high 3 2 school demonstrates a good=faith effort to comply with the 3 3 requirements of the bill and an inability to do so due to a 3 4 regional shortage of contest health care professionals. 3 5 The bill requires the department of education, the Iowa 3 6 high school athletic association, and the Iowa girls high 3 7 school athletic union to establish a process whereby an 3 8 extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest can still take 3 9 place when a contest health care professional who was scheduled 3 10 to be present and available as provided in the bill is not able 3 11 to be present and available due to unforeseen circumstances. 3 12 The bill defines "contest health care professional" as a 3 13 physician licensed under Code chapter 148, physical therapist 3 14 licensed under Code chapter 148A, or athletic trainer licensed 3 15 under Code chapter 152D. The bill defines "collision sport" 3 16 as football, soccer, wrestling, hockey, or lacrosse. The bill 3 17 defines "contact sport" as a sport that is not a collision 3 18 sport and that is defined as a contact sport by the American 3 19 academy of pediatrics. 3 20 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code 3 21 section 25B.3. The bill makes inapplicable Code section 25B.2, 3 22 subsection 3, which would relieve a political subdivision from 3 23 complying with a state mandate if funding for the cost of 3 24 the state mandate is not provided or specified. Therefore, 3 25 political subdivisions are required to comply with any state 3 26 mandate included in the bill. LSB 5434SV (2) 86 je/rj