Bill Text: TX HB675 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to football helmet safety requirements in public schools.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB675 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB675-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 675 |
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relating to football helmet safety requirements in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 33.094 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.094. FOOTBALL HELMET SAFETY REQUIREMENTS. (a) A | ||
school district may not use a football helmet that is 16 years old | ||
or older in the district's football program. | ||
(b) A school district shall ensure that each football helmet | ||
used in the district's football program that is 10 years old or | ||
older is reconditioned at least once every two years. | ||
(c) A school district shall maintain and make available to | ||
parents of students enrolled in the district documentation | ||
indicating the age of each football helmet used in the district's | ||
football program and the dates on which each helmet is | ||
reconditioned. | ||
(d) The University Interscholastic League may adopt rules | ||
necessary to implement this section, provided that the rules must | ||
be approved by the commissioner in accordance with Section | ||
33.083(b). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2012-2013 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 675 was passed by the House on April | ||
6, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 117, Nays 25, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 675 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1 | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |