Bill Text: TX SB1921 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to cardiac assessments of high school participants in extracurricular athletic activities sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-19 - Referred to Education [SB1921 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1921-Introduced.html
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| By: Alvarado | S.B. No. 1921 | |
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| relating to cardiac assessments of high school 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 33.096 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.096. CARDIAC ASSESSMENTS OF HIGH SCHOOL | ||
| 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 or echocardiogram 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 at the ninth grade level or above; and | ||
| (2) if 11th grade is not the student's first year of | ||
| participation, another time before the student's subsequent year of | ||
| participation at the 11th grade level. | ||
| (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 an echocardiogram. | ||
| (c) To facilitate the administration of electrocardiograms | ||
| or echocardiograms to students, a school district may: | ||
| (1) at the district's expense, partner with a | ||
| nonprofit entity to provide electrocardiograms or echocardiograms; | ||
| or | ||
| (2) elect to pay for the costs of administering | ||
| electrocardiograms or echocardiograms to students. | ||
| (d) The University Interscholastic League shall adopt rules | ||
| as necessary to administer this section. | ||
| (e) The rules adopted under Subsection (d) must include: | ||
| (1) criteria under which a school district may | ||
| demonstrate a hardship that allows the district to delay | ||
| administering required electrocardiograms or echocardiograms to | ||
| students under this section; and | ||
| (2) procedures that provide for granting a waiver from | ||
| administration of an electrocardiogram or echocardiogram to a | ||
| student if, for any reason, the parent or person standing in | ||
| parental relation to the student submits a written request for the | ||
| waiver. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
