Bill Title: Enacts the "concussion management and awareness act"; directs the commissioners of education and health to adopt and implement rules and regulations for the treatment and monitoring of students with mild traumatic brain injuries; requires school personnel to receive training in mild traumatic brain injuries; such rules and regulations shall apply to school districts and boards of cooperative educational services; requires provisions of information pamphlet on mild traumatic brain injuries to parents of pupils participating in interscholastic sports or who have suffered a mild traumatic brain injury; requires written consent of and acknowledgment of receipt of such pamphlet by parents prior to participation in interscholastic sports; provides for the establishment of concussion management teams to implement such provisions.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 10-6)

Status: (Passed) 2011-09-19 - SIGNED CHAP.496 [S03953 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Assembly	Assembly Floor Vote - Final Passage	2011-06-14	141	1	0	4	146	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage	2011-06-13	61	1	0	0	62	Passed	Link	View

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