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.
Sponsorship: 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. | ||
