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Assembly Bill A3641

2013-2014 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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2013-A3641 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง921, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A9662

2013-A3641 (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.

2013-A3641 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3641

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 28, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BOYLAND, CASTRO, COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
  of A. ARROYO, CRESPO, SCARBOROUGH, STEVENSON -- read once and referred
  to the Committee 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.

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