By: Hilbert H.B. No. 1427 73R3527 SMH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to athletic trainers. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 1(1), Chapter 498, Acts of the 62nd 1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1971 (Article 4512d, Vernon's Texas 1-6 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (1) "Athletic Trainer" means a person with specific 1-8 qualifications, as set forth in Section 9 of this Act, who, upon 1-9 the advice and consent of his team physician, carries out the 1-10 practice of prevention and/or physical rehabilitation of injuries 1-11 incurred by athletes or who, upon the advice and consent of the 1-12 medical director of the hospital-based sports medicine center at 1-13 which the athletic trainer practices, carries out the practice of 1-14 prevention and/or physical rehabilitation of injuries incurred by 1-15 athletes or nonathletes. To carry out these functions the Athletic 1-16 trainer is authorized to use physical modalities such as heat, 1-17 light, sound, cold, electricity, or mechanical devices related to 1-18 rehabilitation and treatment. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.