Florida Senate - 2020                                    SB 1696
       
       
        
       By Senator Perry
       
       
       
       
       
       8-01383-20                                            20201696__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to student athletes; amending s.
    3         1006.165, F.S.; revising requirements for the
    4         availability of automated external defibrillators on
    5         school grounds; delaying implementation of a
    6         requirement that certain school employees and
    7         volunteers complete specified training; requiring that
    8         a school employee or volunteer who has received the
    9         training be present at certain athletic activities, by
   10         a specified date; requiring the Florida High School
   11         Athletic Association to establish certain requirements
   12         relating to student athlete safety; requiring the
   13         association to notify member schools of certain
   14         information; amending s. 1006.20, F.S.; requiring that
   15         a medical evaluation be performed before a student
   16         begins conditioning; applying requirements related to
   17         medical evaluations to activities occurring outside
   18         the school year; providing an effective date.
   19          
   20  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   21  
   22         Section 1. Section 1006.165, Florida Statutes, is amended
   23  to read:
   24         1006.165 Well-being of students participating in
   25  extracurricular activities Automated external defibrillator;
   26  user training.—
   27         (1)(a) Each public school that is a member of the Florida
   28  High School Athletic Association must have an operational
   29  automated external defibrillator on the school grounds. The
   30  defibrillator must be available in a clearly marked and
   31  publicized location for each athletic contest, practice,
   32  workout, or conditioning session, including those conducted
   33  outside of the school year. Public and private partnerships are
   34  encouraged to cover the cost associated with the purchase and
   35  placement of the defibrillator and training in the use of the
   36  defibrillator.
   37         (b)(2)Beginning June 1, 2021, a school employee or
   38  volunteer with current training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
   39  and use of a defibrillator must be present at each athletic
   40  event during and outside of the school year, including
   41  practices, workouts, and conditioning sessions. The training
   42  received by the employee or volunteer must include Each school
   43  must ensure that all employees or volunteers who are reasonably
   44  expected to use the device obtain appropriate training,
   45  including completion of a course in cardiopulmonary
   46  resuscitation or a basic first aid course that includes
   47  cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, and demonstrated
   48  proficiency in the use of an automated external defibrillator.
   49  All employees or volunteers who may be reasonably expected to
   50  use a defibrillator must complete the training.
   51         (c)(3) The location of each automated external
   52  defibrillator must be registered with a local emergency medical
   53  services medical director. Each individual required to complete
   54  the training under paragraph (b) must be notified annually of
   55  the location of each defibrillator on the school grounds.
   56         (2)(a)In order to better protect student athletes
   57  participating in athletics during hot weather and to avoid
   58  preventable injury or death, the Florida High School Athletic
   59  Association shall:
   60         1.Make available to each member school training and
   61  resources for the effective monitoring of heat stress using
   62  WetBulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) and heat index levels.
   63         2.Establish WBGT and heat index levels at which a school
   64  must make a cooling zone available for each outdoor athletic
   65  contest, practice, workout, or conditioning session.
   66         3.Require member schools to monitor heat stress using WBGT
   67  and heat index levels and modify athletic activities
   68  accordingly, including suspending or moving activities.
   69         4.Establish hydration guidelines, including appropriate
   70  introduction of electrolytes after extended activities or when a
   71  student participates in multiple athletic activities in a day.
   72         5.Establish requirements for cooling zones, including, at
   73  a minimum, the immediate availability of cold-water immersion
   74  tubs or equivalent means to rapidly cool internal body
   75  temperature when a student exhibits symptoms of exertional heat
   76  stroke, and for the presence at athletic activities of an
   77  employee or volunteer trained to implement and administer the
   78  cooling zones.
   79         6.Require each school’s emergency action plan to include a
   80  procedure for onsite cooling using cold-water immersion or
   81  equivalent means before a student is transported to a hospital
   82  for exertional heat stroke.
   83  
   84  The requirements of this paragraph apply year round.
   85         (b)All athletic coaches and sponsors of extracurricular
   86  activities involving outdoor practices or events shall complete
   87  annual training in exertional heat illness identification,
   88  prevention, and response, including effective administration of
   89  cooling zones.
   90         (3)The board of directors for the Florida High School
   91  Athletic Association shall notify each member school of any
   92  policy change recommended by the Sports Medicine Advisory
   93  Committee which it considers at a board meeting, but does not
   94  adopt. The notification must include the board’s rationale for
   95  not adopting the committee recommendation and must be provided
   96  in writing to each member school within 30 days after the board
   97  meeting.
   98         (4) The use of automated external defibrillators by
   99  employees and volunteers is covered under ss. 768.13 and
  100  768.1325.
  101         Section 2. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
  102  1006.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
  103         1006.20 Athletics in public K-12 schools.—
  104         (2) ADOPTION OF BYLAWS, POLICIES, OR GUIDELINES.—
  105         (c) The FHSAA shall adopt bylaws that require all students
  106  participating in interscholastic athletic competition or who are
  107  candidates for an interscholastic athletic team to
  108  satisfactorily pass a medical evaluation each year prior to
  109  participating in interscholastic athletic competition or
  110  engaging in any practice, tryout, workout, conditioning, or
  111  other physical activity associated with the student’s candidacy
  112  for an interscholastic athletic team, including activities that
  113  occur outside of the school year. Such medical evaluation may be
  114  administered only by a practitioner licensed under chapter 458,
  115  chapter 459, chapter 460, or s. 464.012, and in good standing
  116  with the practitioner’s regulatory board. The bylaws must shall
  117  establish requirements for eliciting a student’s medical history
  118  and performing the medical evaluation required under this
  119  paragraph, which must shall include a physical assessment of the
  120  student’s physical capabilities to participate in
  121  interscholastic athletic competition as contained in a uniform
  122  preparticipation physical evaluation and history form. The
  123  evaluation form must shall incorporate the recommendations of
  124  the American Heart Association for participation cardiovascular
  125  screening and shall provide a place for the signature of the
  126  practitioner performing the evaluation with an attestation that
  127  each examination procedure listed on the form was performed by
  128  the practitioner or by someone under the direct supervision of
  129  the practitioner. The form shall also must contain a place for
  130  the practitioner to indicate if a referral to another
  131  practitioner was made in lieu of completion of a certain
  132  examination procedure. The form must shall provide a place for
  133  the practitioner to whom the student was referred to complete
  134  the remaining sections and attest to that portion of the
  135  examination. The preparticipation physical evaluation form must
  136  shall advise students to complete a cardiovascular assessment
  137  and must shall include information concerning alternative
  138  cardiovascular evaluation and diagnostic tests. Results of such
  139  medical evaluation must be provided to the school. A student is
  140  not eligible to participate, as provided in s. 1006.15(3), in
  141  any interscholastic athletic competition or engage in any
  142  practice, tryout, workout, or other physical activity associated
  143  with the student’s candidacy for an interscholastic athletic
  144  team until the results of the medical evaluation have been
  145  received and approved by the school.
  146         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.