Bill Text: TX SB155 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for participants in extracurricular athletic activities sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League, including a sudden cardiac arrest awareness form.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-23 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB155 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB155-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 155 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed November 14, 2016; January 25, 2017, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Education; | ||
| May 23, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 2; May 23, 2017, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 155 | By: Hall | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to requirements for participants in extracurricular | ||
| athletic activities sponsored or sanctioned by the University | ||
| Interscholastic League, including a sudden cardiac arrest | ||
| awareness form. | ||
| 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. DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED FOR PARTICIPANTS IN | ||
| EXTRACURRICULAR ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES. (a) The University | ||
| Interscholastic League shall create an informational sudden | ||
| cardiac arrest awareness form for school districts to provide to a | ||
| parent of or person standing in parental relation to a student who | ||
| wants to participate in an athletic activity sponsored or | ||
| sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League. The form must | ||
| include information relating to sudden cardiac arrest, including: | ||
| (1) a description of a sudden cardiac arrest; | ||
| (2) the causes of a sudden cardiac arrest; | ||
| (3) the symptoms and warning signs of a sudden cardiac | ||
| arrest; | ||
| (4) the treatments for a sudden cardiac arrest; and | ||
| (5) options for screening for sudden cardiac arrest | ||
| that may be discussed with the student's physician. | ||
| (b) If a student 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, a school district may not allow a district student to | ||
| participate in the activity unless the student provides: | ||
| (1) documentation of the physical examination; and | ||
| (2) the informational sudden cardiac arrest awareness | ||
| form described by Subsection (a) signed by the parent of or person | ||
| standing in parental relation to the student. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2018-2019 | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
| * * * * * | ||
