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Assembly Bill A9662

2011-2012 Legislative Session

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

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2011-A9662 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง921, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A3641

2011-A9662 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2011-A9662 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9662

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 23, 2012
                               ___________

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:

  Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 921 to
read as follows:
  S 921. INFORMATION ON  HEAD  INJURIES  FOR  CERTAIN  ATHLETIC  PARTIC-
IPATION.   EVERY  SCHOOL  DISTRICT,  BOARD  OF  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATIONAL
SERVICES, AND NONPUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL SHALL DISTRIBUTE
TO ALL PUPIL  ATHLETES  AN  INFORMATIONAL  PAMPHLET  TO  EDUCATE  PUPILS
PARTICIPATING IN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS AND PERSONS IN PARENTAL RELATION
TO  A PUPIL PARTICIPATING IN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS ON THE NATURE, INCI-
DENCE, TREATMENT, WARNING SIGNS AND RISKS OF CONCUSSIONS AND HEAD  INJU-
RIES  AND  AN  ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF THE PAMPHLET. A COPY OF SUCH
PAMPHLET SHALL BE PROVIDED ANNUALLY TO EVERY PUPIL WHO  PARTICIPATES  IN
AN  INTERSCHOLASTIC  SPORT  PRIOR  TO  THE FIRST PRACTICE OR TRYOUT. THE
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT SHALL ATTEST TO RECEIPT OF THE PAMPHLET TO  BE
DISTRIBUTED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS SECTION AND THAT THE SIGNATORS HAVE READ
AND UNDERSTAND THE NATURE AND RISKS OF CONCUSSIONS AND HEAD INJURIES. NO
PUPIL SHALL PRACTICE FOR OR ENGAGE IN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS UNTIL  SUCH
PUPIL AND THE PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATION TO HIM OR HER HAVE SIGNED SUCH
FORM. A NEW FORM SHALL BE SIGNED BY THE PUPIL AND THE PERSON IN PARENTAL
RELATION  TO  HIM OR HER IN EVERY YEAR IN WHICH SUCH PUPIL PRACTICES FOR
OR ENGAGES IN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
the  date  on  which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that
effective immediately, any rules and regulations necessary to  implement
the  provisions  of  this  act  on its effective date are authorized and
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

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