Bill Text: TX HB887 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to safety measures to protect students participating in athletic activities sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Referred to Education [HB887 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB887-Engrossed.html
| By: Lucio III, Bonnen of Galveston, | H.B. No. 887 | |
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| relating to safety measures to protect students participating in | ||
| 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 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.161 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.161. SPORTS INJURY PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The agency | ||
| shall establish a sports injury pilot program for students | ||
| participating in a University Interscholastic League athletic | ||
| program to evaluate concussion prevention methods used for | ||
| full-contact athletic drills or live game simulations or athletic | ||
| competitions in which there is full contact among students. The | ||
| commissioner shall select school districts of this state that are | ||
| representative of all regions and sizes to participate in the | ||
| program | ||
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| (b) The program must include: | ||
| (1) a preseason physical examination of a student | ||
| athlete performed by a physician or another appropriate licensed | ||
| health care professional acting under physician delegation; | ||
| (2) preseason neurocognitive baseline testing of a | ||
| student athlete; | ||
| (3) a return-to-play protocol as described by this | ||
| subchapter; | ||
| (4) post-injury neurocognitive testing of a student | ||
| athlete; | ||
| (5) access to a physician, or another appropriate | ||
| licensed health care professional acting under physician | ||
| delegation, trained in the diagnosis and management of a | ||
| concussion; and | ||
| (6) an excess accident insurance policy that is | ||
| designed to cover the expenses related to the identification and | ||
| treatment of a concussion. | ||
| (c) Not later than December 31, 2014, the commissioner shall | ||
| review the pilot program established under this section and submit | ||
| to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house | ||
| of representatives, and the Legislative Budget Board a written | ||
| report regarding the progress made under the pilot program in the | ||
| identification and treatment of concussions. | ||
| (d) Using funds appropriated or available for the purpose, | ||
| the agency may contract with a school of public health or medicine | ||
| in this state to scientifically evaluate the effectiveness of | ||
| various methods of improving access to and quality of medical care | ||
| for athletes who have sustained a concussion. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
