79R4120 BDH-F
By: Rose H.B. No. 1034
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to notification provided by certain health care
professionals 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
PROFESSIONALS 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 secondary injury resulting from head
trauma suffered during a sports activity;
(2) the types of secondary injury that may occur; and
(3) the symptoms of secondary injury.
(b) A physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner
who 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.