By: Price, Raymond (Senate Sponsor - Birdwell) H.B. No. 3024
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2017;
May 5, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 16, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the removal of a public school student from an
interscholastic athletic activity on the basis of a suspected
concussion.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 38.156, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 38.156. REMOVAL FROM PLAY IN PRACTICE OR COMPETITION
FOLLOWING CONCUSSION. A student shall be removed from an
interscholastic athletics practice or competition immediately if
one of the following persons believes the student might have
sustained a concussion during the practice or competition:
(1) a coach;
(2) a physician;
(3) a licensed health care professional; [or]
(4) a person licensed under Chapter 201, Occupations
Code; or
(5) the student's parent or guardian or another person
with legal authority to make medical decisions for the student.
SECTION 2. 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, 2017.
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