Bill Text: NY A09662 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school districts to provide information on head injuries to pupils and their parents and requires acknowledgment of receipt of such information prior to engaging in interscholastic sports.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-23 - referred to education [A09662 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09662-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9662
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 23, 2012
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       Introduced  by M. of A. BOYLAND -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  school
         districts  to provide information on head injuries to pupils and their
         parents and requiring acknowledgment of receipt  of  such  information
         prior to engaging in interscholastic sports
         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 921 to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S 921. INFORMATION ON  HEAD  INJURIES  FOR  CERTAIN  ATHLETIC  PARTIC-
    4  IPATION.   EVERY  SCHOOL  DISTRICT,  BOARD  OF  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATIONAL
    5  SERVICES, AND NONPUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL SHALL DISTRIBUTE
    6  TO ALL PUPIL  ATHLETES  AN  INFORMATIONAL  PAMPHLET  TO  EDUCATE  PUPILS
    7  PARTICIPATING IN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS AND PERSONS IN PARENTAL RELATION
    8  TO  A PUPIL PARTICIPATING IN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS ON THE NATURE, INCI-
    9  DENCE, TREATMENT, WARNING SIGNS AND RISKS OF CONCUSSIONS AND HEAD  INJU-
   10  RIES  AND  AN  ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF THE PAMPHLET. A COPY OF SUCH
   11  PAMPHLET SHALL BE PROVIDED ANNUALLY TO EVERY PUPIL WHO  PARTICIPATES  IN
   12  AN  INTERSCHOLASTIC  SPORT  PRIOR  TO  THE FIRST PRACTICE OR TRYOUT. THE
   13  ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT SHALL ATTEST TO RECEIPT OF THE PAMPHLET TO  BE
   14  DISTRIBUTED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS SECTION AND THAT THE SIGNATORS HAVE READ
   15  AND UNDERSTAND THE NATURE AND RISKS OF CONCUSSIONS AND HEAD INJURIES. NO
   16  PUPIL SHALL PRACTICE FOR OR ENGAGE IN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS UNTIL  SUCH
   17  PUPIL AND THE PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATION TO HIM OR HER HAVE SIGNED SUCH
   18  FORM. A NEW FORM SHALL BE SIGNED BY THE PUPIL AND THE PERSON IN PARENTAL
   19  RELATION  TO  HIM OR HER IN EVERY YEAR IN WHICH SUCH PUPIL PRACTICES FOR
   20  OR ENGAGES IN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
   22  the  date  on  which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that
   23  effective immediately, any rules and regulations necessary to  implement
   24  the  provisions  of  this  act  on its effective date are authorized and
   25  directed to be completed on or before such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15112-02-2