Bill Text: TX HB3359 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for coaches of youth sports programs.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-17 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB3359 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3359-Introduced.html
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| By: Rodriguez of Bexar | H.B. No. 3359 | |
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| relating to requirements for coaches of youth sports programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 13, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 2053 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 2053. REQUIREMENTS FOR COACHES OF YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 2053.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Coach" means a person who provides training, | ||
| teaching, or similar services to participants in a youth sports | ||
| program. | ||
| (2) "Youth sports program" means an entity that | ||
| provides an organized athletic program that is not associated with | ||
| a school and is for children who are enrolled in kindergarten | ||
| through sixth grade in a public, private, or charter school or | ||
| children of similar age who are provided an education in a home | ||
| setting. | ||
| Sec. 2053.002. TRAINING AND CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECK | ||
| REQUIRED. (a) A person may not act as a coach for a youth sports | ||
| program unless the person has successfully completed a youth sports | ||
| training course that meets the requirements of this chapter and | ||
| rules adopted under this chapter and includes a criminal history | ||
| record check ascertaining whether the person is registered as a sex | ||
| offender under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure. | ||
| (b) A youth sports training course required by this section | ||
| may be offered or facilitated only by a sports foundation, a | ||
| nonprofit national youth sports organization that requires and | ||
| administers a participant certification program, a coaches | ||
| association, a national governing body as that term is defined by | ||
| the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act (36 U.S.C. Section | ||
| 220501), or a public or private high school or middle school | ||
| athletic department. | ||
| (c) A youth sports training course must include: | ||
| (1) at least two hours of in-person or online specific | ||
| sport skills-based coaching instruction; and | ||
| (2) at least two hours of in-person non-skills-based | ||
| coaching instruction that, at a minimum, addresses: | ||
| (A) the role of a youth sports coach; | ||
| (B) communication and accountability by and | ||
| between coaches, participants, and parents; | ||
| (C) suggestions for teaching and modeling life | ||
| skills; | ||
| (D) child developmental stages and corresponding | ||
| age-appropriate communication and discipline; and | ||
| (E) the health, safety, and legal | ||
| responsibilities of coaches. | ||
| Sec. 2053.003. LIABILITY INSURANCE INFORMATION. An | ||
| organization that provides a youth sports training course may offer | ||
| to coaches attending the course information on the availability of | ||
| liability insurance for the coaches and their players. | ||
| Sec. 2053.004. RULES. The Texas Commission of Licensing | ||
| and Regulation may adopt the rules necessary to implement this | ||
| chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Not later than December 1, 2015, the Texas | ||
| Commission of Licensing and Regulation shall adopt any rules | ||
| necessary to implement Chapter 2053, Occupations Code, as added by | ||
| this Act. | ||
| (b) The changes in law made by this Act apply only to a coach | ||
| who is coaching a youth sports program for a sports season that | ||
| begins on or after January 1, 2016. A coach who is coaching a youth | ||
| sports program during a sports season that began before that date is | ||
| governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date | ||
| of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
