| 1 | | - | By: Price, Raymond (Senate Sponsor - Birdwell) H.B. No. 3024 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2017; |
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| 3 | | - | May 5, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | | - | Education; May 16, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | | - | Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 2017, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | H.B. No. 3024 |
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| 10 | 4 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 5 | | relating to the removal of a public school student from an |
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| 12 | 6 | | interscholastic athletic activity on the basis of a suspected |
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| 13 | 7 | | concussion. |
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| 14 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 15 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 38.156, Education Code, is amended to |
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| 16 | 10 | | read as follows: |
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| 17 | 11 | | Sec. 38.156. REMOVAL FROM PLAY IN PRACTICE OR COMPETITION |
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| 18 | 12 | | FOLLOWING CONCUSSION. A student shall be removed from an |
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| 19 | 13 | | interscholastic athletics practice or competition immediately if |
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| 20 | 14 | | one of the following persons believes the student might have |
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| 21 | 15 | | sustained a concussion during the practice or competition: |
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| 22 | 16 | | (1) a coach; |
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| 23 | 17 | | (2) a physician; |
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| 24 | 18 | | (3) a licensed health care professional; [or] |
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| 25 | 19 | | (4) a person licensed under Chapter 201, Occupations |
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| 26 | 20 | | Code; or |
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| 27 | 21 | | (5) the student's parent or guardian or another person |
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| 28 | 22 | | with legal authority to make medical decisions for the student. |
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| 29 | 23 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 30 | 24 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 31 | 25 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 32 | 26 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 33 | 27 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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| 34 | | - | * * * * * |
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| 28 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 29 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 30 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 3024 was passed by the House on May 2, |
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| 31 | + | 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not |
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| 32 | + | voting. |
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| 33 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 34 | + | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 35 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 3024 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 36 | + | 23, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. |
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| 37 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 38 | + | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 39 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 40 | + | Date |
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| 41 | + | _____________________ |
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| 42 | + | Governor |
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