| |
|
|
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 33.089 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 33.089. 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 2007-2008 |
|
|
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, 2007. |