Bill Text: WV HB2002 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-09 - To House Education [HB2002 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2014-HB2002-Introduced.html
(By Delegate Caputo (By Request))
[Introduced February 13, 2013; referred to the
Committee on Education then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §18-2-25 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission; and requiring rules relating to interscholastic athletic football events include the requirement that neck braces be worn by all football players.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-2-25 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
§18-2-25. Authority of county boards to regulate athletic and other extracurricular activities of secondary schools; delegation of authority to West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission; authority of commission; approval of rules by state board; incorporation; funds; participation by private and parochial schools.
The county boards of education are hereby granted and shall exercise the control, supervision and regulation of all interscholastic athletic events, and other extracurricular activities of the students in public secondary schools, and of
The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission shall be composed of the principals, or their representatives, of those secondary schools whose county boards of education have certified in writing to the State Superintendent of Schools that they have elected to delegate the control, supervision and regulation of their interscholastic athletic events and band activities of the students in the public secondary schools in their respective counties to said commission. The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission, is hereby empowered to exercise the control, supervision and regulation of interscholastic athletic events and band activities of secondary schools, delegated to it pursuant to this section. The rules
The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission shall promulgate reasonable rules
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to adopt rules to provide for use of neck braces by football players in interscholastic athletic football events.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.