Round Table on Sports "Concussions" and
how
Schools should manage these injuries
This is the pending legislative
proposal, sponsored in the Assembly by
Assemblyman
Robert Sweeney and in the Senate by
Senator Kemp Hannon:
RETRIEVE BILL
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2005
2005-2006 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 8, 2005
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the establishment and
implementation of guidelines concerning certain head injuries
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 919 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 919. Guidelines for certain athletic and recreational participation.
4 1. Every school district shall establish and implement guidelines for
5 the return to athletic competition, gym class or school sponsored recre-
6 ational activity by students after suffering a concussion.
7 2. The guidelines provided for in subdivision one of this section
8 shall include, but not be limited to:
9 (a) written clearance from a physician before the student is allowed
10 to return to athletic competition, participation in gym class or other
11 school sponsored recreational activity; and
12 (b) a system to track the number and seriousness of concussions any
13 one student may have suffered throughout his or her years of elementary
14 and secondary school attendance.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that any rules and regu-
17 lations necessary for the timely implementation of this act on its
18 effective date shall be promulgated on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01477-01-5
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