Bill Text: TX HB52 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to physical examination requirements for participation in certain University Interscholastic League extracurricular athletic activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-09 - Referred to Public Education [HB52 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB52-Introduced.html
82R608 CAS-D | ||
By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 52 |
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relating to physical examination requirements for participation in | ||
certain University Interscholastic League extracurricular athletic | ||
activities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 33.093 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.093. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION REQUIRED FOR | ||
PARTICIPATION IN CERTAIN EXTRACURRICULAR ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES. (a) | ||
A student may not participate in an extracurricular athletic | ||
activity involving physical contact among the players, including an | ||
athletic practice, scrimmage, game, or match for such an activity, | ||
sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League | ||
unless the student has submitted to the school district in which the | ||
student attends school a completed form indicating that the student | ||
has received a physical examination, including a cognitive | ||
assessment. | ||
(b) A student must submit a form under this section for each | ||
school year in which the student participates in an extracurricular | ||
athletic activity to which this section applies. | ||
(c) The University Interscholastic League shall adopt rules | ||
to administer this section, including rules specifying: | ||
(1) the athletic activities that involve physical | ||
contact among the players; and | ||
(2) the type of medical personnel authorized to | ||
perform the physical examination required by Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |