Bill Text: TX HB767 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to cardiac assessments of participants in extracurricular athletic activities sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-21 - Co-sponsor authorized [HB767 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB767-Engrossed.html
By: Smith, Turner of Harris, Lucio III, | H.B. No. 767 | |
Huberty, Sheffield, et al. |
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relating to cardiac assessments of participants in extracurricular | ||
athletic activities sponsored or sanctioned by the University | ||
Interscholastic League. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 33.095 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.095. CARDIAC ASSESSMENTS OF PARTICIPANTS IN | ||
EXTRACURRICULAR ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES. (a) A school district must | ||
require a district student who is required under University | ||
Interscholastic League rule or policy to receive a physical | ||
examination before being allowed to participate in an athletic | ||
activity sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic | ||
League to also have administered to the student an | ||
electrocardiogram before being allowed to participate in the | ||
activity, including a practice for the activity, as follows: | ||
(1) one time before the student's first year of | ||
participation; and | ||
(2) another time before the student's third year of | ||
participation. | ||
(b) This section does not create a cause of action or | ||
liability against an appropriately licensed or certified health | ||
care professional, a school district, or a district officer or | ||
employee for the injury or death of a student participating in or | ||
practicing for an athletic activity sponsored or sanctioned by the | ||
University Interscholastic League based on or in connection with | ||
the administration or evaluation of or reliance on an | ||
electrocardiogram or on any echocardiogram. | ||
(c) The University Interscholastic League shall adopt rules | ||
as necessary to administer this section. | ||
(d) The rules adopted under Subsection (c) must include a | ||
rule for granting a waiver from administration of an | ||
electrocardiogram under this section to a student if, for any | ||
reason, the parent of or person standing in parental relation to the | ||
student submits a written request for the waiver. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2016-2017 | ||
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, 2015. |