HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 63B
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12	Representative Henriquez offered the following:
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14	Amendment (with title amendment)
15	Between lines 2510 and 2511, insert:
16	Section 55. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
17	1006.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
18	1006.20 Athletics in public K-12 schools.--
19	(2) ADOPTION OF BYLAWS.--
20	(c) The organization shall adopt bylaws that require all
21	students participating in interscholastic athletic competition
22	or who are candidates for an interscholastic athletic team to
23	satisfactorily pass a medical evaluation each year prior to
24	participating in interscholastic athletic competition or
25	engaging in any practice, tryout, workout, or other physical
26	activity associated with the student's candidacy for an
27	interscholastic athletic team. Such medical evaluation can only
28	be administered by a practitioner licensed under the provisions
29	of chapter 458, chapter 459, chapter 460, or s. 464.012, and in
30	good standing with the practitioner's regulatory board. The
31	bylaws shall establish requirements for eliciting a student's
32	medical history and performing the medical evaluation required
33	under this paragraph, which shall include minimum standards for
34	the physical capabilities necessary for participation in
35	interscholastic athletic competition as contained in a uniform
36	preparticipation physical evaluation and historyform. The
37	evaluation and history form shall incorporate the recommendation
38	of the American Heart Association for preparticipation
39	cardiovascular screening and shallprovide a place for the
40	signature of the practitioner performing the evaluation with an
41	attestation that each examination procedure listed on the form
42	was performed by the practitioner or by someone under the direct
43	supervision of the practitioner. The form shall also contain a
44	place for the practitioner to indicate if a referral to another
45	practitioner was made in lieu of completion of a certain
46	examination procedure. The form shall provide a place for the
47	practitioner to whom the student was referred to complete the
48	remaining sections and attest to that portion of the
49	examination. The preparticipation physical evaluation form shall
50	advise students to complete a cardiovascular assessment and
51	shall include information concerning alternative cardiovascular
52	evaluation and diagnostic tests. Practitioners administering
53	medical evaluations pursuant to this subsection must know the
54	minimum standards established by the organization and certify
55	that the student meets the standards. If the practitioner
56	determines that there are any abnormal findings in the
57	cardiovascular system, the student may not participate unless a
58	subsequent EKG or other cardiovascular assessment indicates that
59	the abnormality will not place the student at risk during such
60	participation.Results of such medical evaluation must be
61	provided to the school. No student shall be eligible to
62	participate in any interscholastic athletic competition or
63	engage in any practice, tryout, workout, or other physical
64	activity associated with the student's candidacy for an
65	interscholastic athletic team until the results of the medical
66	evaluation verifying that the student has satisfactorily passed
67	the evaluationhave been received and approved by the school.
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71	1, 2004; amending s. 1006.20, F.S.; revising the procedures for
72	students' physical examinations for participation in
73	interscholastic athletics; eliminating the requirement that
74	verification be provided that the student athlete has passed the
75	physical examination as a condition for eligibility to
76	participate in interscholastic athletics; providing
77	severability; providing for