BILL ANALYSIS |
H.B. 3024 |
By: Price |
Public Education |
Committee Report (Unamended) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties contend that allowing a licensed chiropractor to determine whether a student might have sustained a concussion during an interscholastic athletics practice or competition and thus should be removed from the practice or competition could improve the health and safety of student-athletes. H.B. 3024 seeks to provide for the removal of a student from such an activity on the basis of a suspected concussion as determined by a licensed chiropractor.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
H.B. 3024 amends the Education Code to include a licensed chiropractor among the persons whose belief that a student might have sustained a concussion during an interscholastic athletics practice or competition triggers the requirement for the immediate removal of the student from the practice or competition.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.
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