Bill Text: NJ A3420 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that each school district conducting an interscholastic athletic program must employ one or more school athletic trainers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-10-18 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A3420 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A3420-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ALBERT COUTINHO
District 29 (Essex and Union)
SYNOPSIS
Requires that each school district conducting an interscholastic athletic program must employ one or more school athletic trainers.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning school athletic trainers and amending N.J.S.18A:40-1.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S.18A:40-1 is amended to read as follows:
N.J.S.18A:40-1. Every board of education shall employ one or more physicians, licensed to practice medicine and surgery within the state, to be known as the medical inspector or medical inspectors, and any board, not furnishing nursing services under a contract pursuant to section 18A:40-3.1 shall employ one or more school nurses, and it may also employ one or more optometrists, licensed to practice optometry within the state, to be known as the school vision examiner or school vision examiners, and the board shall fix their salaries and terms of office.
Every board of education of a school district that conducts an interscholastic athletic program shall employ one or more school athletic trainers, and the board shall fix their salaries and terms of office.
Every board of education shall adopt rules, subject to the approval of the state board, for the government of such employees.
(cf: N.J.S.18A:40-1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately and first be applicable to the 2011-2012 school year.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that beginning in the 2011-2012 school year every school district that conducts an interscholastic athletic program must employ one or more school athletic trainers. The presence of school athletic trainers is critical to reducing the number and severity of injuries to student athletes in the State and helping to ensure their safety.
