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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
SENATE BILL 1472 By: Rader
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to athletics; creating the Coach
Safely Act; providing short title; defining terms;
requiring youth athletics associations to take
certain actions; authorizing promulgation of rules;
providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHO MA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-241.1 of Title 63, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Coach
Safely Act”.
B. As used in this section :
1. “Athletics personnel” means athletic directors and other
individuals actively involved in organizing, training, or coaching
sports activities for a youth sports association ;
2. “Coach” means any individual, whethe r paid, unpaid,
volunteer, or interim, who has bee n approved by a youth sports
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association to organize, train, or supervise a you th athlete or team
of youth athletes;
3. “High-risk youth athletic activities ” means any organized
sport in which there is a significant possibility for a youth
athlete to sustain a serious physical injury including, but not
limited to, the sports of football, basketball, baseball,
volleyball, soccer, ice or field hockey, cheerleading, and lacrosse .
It does not include any schoo l-sponsored activities ;
4. “Youth athlete” means an individual age fourteen (14) years
and under participating in an organized s port; and
5. “Youth athletics association ” means any organization that
administers or conducts high -risk youth athletics activities on
property owned, leased, managed, or maint ained by the state, an
agent of the state, or a political subdivision of the state .
C. A youth athletics association that sponsors or conducts
sports training or high-risk youth athletic activities for youth
athletes shall require all coaches and athletic s personnel to:
1. Complete an online or residence course approved by the State
Department of Health, if available at no cost, which provides
information and awareness of actions and measures that may be used
to decrease the likelihood that a youth athlet e will sustain a
serious injury while engaged or participating in a high-risk youth
athletic activity; and
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2. Sign a statement developed by the youth athletics
association attesting that the coach or perso nnel has completed the
course and understands the information provided by the course . The
signed statement shall be maintained by the association for as long
as the coach or personnel is affiliated with the association.
D. The State Commissioner of Health may promulgate rules as
necessary to implement t his section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective Nove mber 1, 2024.
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