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1	1	89R12161 PRL-D
2	2	By: Plesa H.B. No. 3811
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to youth injury mitigation and information training for
10	10	coaches and youth athletics personnel.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 13, Occupations Code, is
13	13	amended by adding Chapter 2053 to read as follows:
14	14	CHAPTER 2053. COACHES AND ATHLETICS PERSONNEL
15	15	Sec. 2053.001. SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be cited as
16	16	the Coach Safely Act.
17	17	Sec. 2053.002. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
18	18	(1) "Association" means an organization that
19	19	administers or conducts high-risk youth athletics activities on
20	20	property owned, leased, managed, or maintained by this state, an
21	21	agent of this state, or a state agency or political subdivision of
22	22	this state.
23	23	(2) "Athletics personnel" means athletic directors
24	24	and other persons actively involved in organizing, training, or
25	25	coaching sports activities for youth who are younger than 15 years
26	26	of age.
27	27	(3) "Coach" means:
28	28	(A) any individual, whether paid, unpaid,
29	29	volunteer, or interim, who an association approves to organize,
30	30	train, or supervise a youth athlete or team of youth athletes; or
31	31	(B) if an individual the association approves is
32	32	unavailable, an individual not approved by the association who is
33	33	selected as a coach by a youth athlete or a team of youth athletes.
34	34	(4) "High-risk youth athletics activities" means any
35	35	organized sport with a significant possibility for a youth athlete
36	36	participating in the sport to sustain a serious physical injury,
37	37	including:
38	38	(A) baseball;
39	39	(B) basketball;
40	40	(C) cheerleading;
41	41	(D) field hockey;
42	42	(E) football;
43	43	(F) ice hockey;
44	44	(G) lacrosse;
45	45	(H) soccer; and
46	46	(I) volleyball.
47	47	(5) "Youth athlete" means an individual younger than
48	48	15 years of age who participates in an organized sport.
49	49	Sec. 2053.003. APPLICABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTER.
50	50	(a) This chapter does not apply to:
51	51	(1) athletic trainers;
52	52	(2) physicians licensed to practice medicine in this
53	53	state;
54	54	(3) nurses licensed to practice nursing in this state;
55	55	(4) first responders; and
56	56	(5) any other health care professionals with acute
57	57	traumatic life support training.
58	58	(b) This chapter does not:
59	59	(1) eliminate the involvement of athletic trainers at
60	60	youth athletic events; or
61	61	(2) impose any additional liability on political
62	62	subdivisions of this state.
63	63	Sec. 2053.004. TRAINING POLICY; YOUTH INJURY MITIGATION AND
64	64	INFORMATION COURSE. (a) A youth athletics association that
65	65	sponsors or conducts sports training or high-risk youth athletics
66	66	activities for youth athletes shall adopt a policy to require all
67	67	the association's coaches and athletics personnel to complete, if
68	68	available at no cost, a youth injury mitigation and information
69	69	course on actions and measures to decrease the likelihood of a youth
70	70	athlete sustaining a serious injury while engaged or participating
71	71	in a high-risk youth athletics activity. The course may be online
72	72	or in person and must be approved by the Department of State Health
73	73	Services.
74	74	(b) A youth injury mitigation and information course must
75	75	provide information on:
76	76	(1) emergency preparedness, planning, and rehearsal
77	77	for traumatic injuries;
78	78	(2) concussions and head trauma;
79	79	(3) heat and extreme weather-related injury
80	80	familiarization;
81	81	(4) physical conditioning and training equipment
82	82	usage; and
83	83	(5) heart defects and abnormalities leading to sudden
84	84	cardiac arrest and death.
85	85	(c) A person required to complete a youth injury mitigation
86	86	and information course under this section must:
87	87	(1) complete the course not later than the 30th day
88	88	following the date the person becomes actively engaged in or serves
89	89	as a coach or member of the athletics personnel for an association;
90	90	and
91	91	(2) annually complete the course not later than the
92	92	anniversary of the date the person became actively engaged in
93	93	serving as a coach or member of the athletics personnel for an
94	94	association.
95	95	Sec. 2053.005. RECORDS OF COURSE COMPLETION. An
96	96	association conducting a high-risk youth athletics activity or
97	97	event that requires a coach or a member of the athletics personnel
98	98	to complete a youth injury mitigation and information course under
99	99	Section 2053.004 shall maintain a record of the individual's course
100	100	completion during the period the person serves as a coach or member
101	101	of the athletics personnel for that association.
102	102	Sec. 2053.006. IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY. A coach or member
103	103	of the athletics personnel of an association is immune from civil
104	104	liability for any injury sustained by a youth athlete as a result of
105	105	participation in a high-risk youth athletics activity on
106	106	establishing that the coach or member:
107	107	(1) completed the injury mitigation and information
108	108	course required under Section 2053.004; and
109	109	(2) reasonably conformed their conduct to the safety
110	110	techniques and methods identified in the course.
111	111	SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
112	112	of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
113	113	Services Commission shall adopt the rules necessary to implement
114	114	Chapter 2053, Occupations Code, as added by this Act.
115	115	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.