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By:  Rose                                                         H.B. No. 1034

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1034:                                   

By:  Hochberg                                                 C.S.H.B. No. 1034



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to notification provided by certain health care providers 
to students and parents or guardians of students who participate in 
extracurricular sports 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 33.090 to read as follows:
	Sec. 33.090.  NOTIFICATION BY CERTAIN HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS 
CONCERNING INJURIES RESULTING FROM HEAD TRAUMA.  (a)  A physician, 
physician assistant, or nurse practitioner who examines a student 
to determine the student's physical fitness to participate in a 
sports activity sponsored or sanctioned by the University 
Interscholastic League shall provide the student and the student's 
parent or guardian with written notification, in the form and with 
the specific content adopted jointly by the agency, the Department 
of State Health Services, the Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory 
Council, and the University Interscholastic League, that explains:
		(1)  the risk of head trauma resulting from a secondary 
impact suffered during a sports activity;
		(2)  the types of head trauma resulting from a 
secondary impact that may occur; and
		(3)  the symptoms of head trauma resulting from a 
secondary impact.  
	(b)  A physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, 
or athletic trainer who, at the time and place of injury, examines a 
student because the student has been injured in a sports activity 
sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League 
shall provide the student and the student's parent or guardian with 
the written notification required under Subsection (a).
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2005-2006 
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, 2005.