Bill Text: NJ S774 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that each school district conducting an interscholastic athletic program must employ one or more school athletic trainers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-12 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S774 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-S774-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 774

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  PAUL A. SARLO

District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires that each school district conducting an interscholastic athletic program must employ one or more school athletic trainers.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning school athletic trainers and amending N.J.S.18A:40-1.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    N.J.S.18A:40-1 is amended to read as follows:

     N.J.S.18A:40-1.  Every board of education shall employ one or more physicians, licensed to practice medicine and surgery within the state, to be known as the medical inspector or medical inspectors, and any board, not furnishing nursing services under a contract pursuant to section 18A:40-3.1 shall employ one or more school nurses, and it may also employ one or more optometrists, licensed to practice optometry within the state, to be known as the school vision examiner or school  vision examiners, and the board shall fix their salaries and terms of office.

     Every board of education of a school district that conducts an interscholastic athletic program shall employ one or more school athletic trainers, and the board shall fix their salaries and terms of office.

     Every board of education shall adopt rules, subject to the approval of the state board, for the government of such employees.

(cf: N.J.S.18A:40-1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and first be applicable to the 2010-2011 school year.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that beginning in the 2010-2011 school year every school district that conducts an interscholastic athletic program must employ one or more school athletic trainers.  The presence of school athletic trainers is critical to reducing the number and severity of injuries to student athletes in the State and helping to ensure their safety.