Florida Senate - 2025 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1070
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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03/11/2025 .
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The Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 (Simon) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. This act may be cited as the “Second Chance
6 Act.”
7 Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (17) of section
8 1002.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
9 1002.20 K-12 student and parent rights.—Parents of public
10 school students must receive accurate and timely information
11 regarding their child’s academic progress and must be informed
12 of ways they can help their child to succeed in school. K-12
13 students and their parents are afforded numerous statutory
14 rights including, but not limited to, the following:
15 (17) ATHLETICS; PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL.—
16 (b) Medical evaluation and electrocardiogram.—Students must
17 satisfactorily pass a medical evaluation each year and, as
18 applicable under s. 1006.20, receive an electrocardiogram before
19 participating in athletics, unless the parent objects in writing
20 based on religious tenets or practices or provides a written
21 statement from a physician that the student does not require an
22 electrocardiogram, in accordance with the provisions of s.
23 1006.20(2)(d).
24 Section 3. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (2) of
25 section 1006.20, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
26 1006.20 Athletics in public K-12 schools.—
27 (2) ADOPTION OF BYLAWS, POLICIES, OR GUIDELINES.—
28 (c) The FHSAA shall adopt bylaws that require the
29 following:
30 1. Require All students participating in interscholastic
31 athletic competition or who are candidates for an
32 interscholastic athletic team to satisfactorily pass a medical
33 evaluation each year before participating in interscholastic
34 athletic competition or engaging in any practice, tryout,
35 workout, conditioning, or other physical activity associated
36 with the student’s candidacy for an interscholastic athletic
37 team, including activities that occur outside of the school
38 year. Such medical evaluation may be administered only by a
39 practitioner licensed under chapter 458, chapter 459, chapter
40 460, or s. 464.012 or registered under s. 464.0123 and in good
41 standing with the practitioner’s regulatory board. The bylaws
42 shall establish requirements for eliciting a student’s medical
43 history and performing the medical evaluation required under
44 this paragraph, which shall include a physical assessment of the
45 student’s physical capabilities to participate in
46 interscholastic athletic competition as contained in a uniform
47 preparticipation physical evaluation and history form. The
48 evaluation form must shall incorporate the recommendations of
49 the American Heart Association for participation cardiovascular
50 screening and must shall provide a place for the signature of
51 the practitioner performing the evaluation with an attestation
52 that each examination procedure listed on the form was performed
53 by the practitioner or by someone under the direct supervision
54 of the practitioner. The form must shall also contain a place
55 for the practitioner to indicate if a referral to another
56 practitioner was made in lieu of completion of a certain
57 examination procedure. The form must shall provide a place for
58 the practitioner to whom the student was referred to complete
59 the remaining sections and attest to that portion of the
60 examination. The preparticipation physical evaluation form must
61 shall advise students to complete a cardiovascular assessment
62 and must shall include information concerning alternative
63 cardiovascular evaluation and diagnostic tests. Results of such
64 medical evaluation must be provided to the school. A student is
65 not eligible to participate, as provided in s. 1006.15(3), in
66 any interscholastic athletic competition or engage in any
67 practice, tryout, workout, or other physical activity associated
68 with the student’s candidacy for an interscholastic athletic
69 team until the results of the medical evaluation have been
70 received and approved by the school.
71 2. Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, students
72 identified by the FHSAA who participate in interscholastic
73 athletic competition or are candidates for an interscholastic
74 athletic team must receive an electrocardiogram as a part of the
75 student’s medical evaluation. The FHSAA shall adopt a schedule
76 to require that, by the 2028-2029 school year, each student who
77 participates in interscholastic athletic competition or is a
78 candidate for an interscholastic athletic team has received at
79 least one electrocardiogram as a part of the student’s medical
80 evaluation before participation. The FHSAA bylaws must specify
81 those students who must receive an electrocardiogram in the
82 2029-2030 school year and thereafter.
83 (d)1. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (c), a
84 student may participate in interscholastic athletic competition
85 or be a candidate for an interscholastic athletic team if the
86 parent of the student objects in writing to the student
87 undergoing a medical evaluation or receiving an
88 electrocardiogram because such evaluation or electrocardiogram
89 is contrary to his or her religious tenets or practices.
90 However, in such case, there shall be no liability on the part
91 of any person or entity in a position to otherwise rely on the
92 results of such medical evaluation or electrocardiogram for any
93 damages resulting from the student’s injury or death arising
94 directly from the student’s participation in interscholastic
95 athletics when where an undisclosed medical condition that would
96 have been revealed in the medical evaluation or
97 electrocardiogram is a proximate cause of the injury or death.
98 If a parent of a student objects in writing to the student
99 receiving an electrocardiogram on the grounds that it is
100 contrary to the parent’s or student’s religious tenets or
101 practices, the parent must provide a written release of
102 liability prepared by an attorney in good standing with The
103 Florida Bar. Alternatively, a parent may provide a written
104 statement from a practitioner licensed under chapter 458 or
105 chapter 459 and in good standing with the practitioner’s
106 regulatory board that the student does not require an
107 electrocardiogram.
108 2. The FHSAA shall develop a standard form to document
109 exceptions granted under this paragraph.
110 Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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114 And the title is amended as follows:
115 Delete everything before the enacting clause
116 and insert:
117 A bill to be entitled
118 An act relating to electrocardiograms for student
119 athletes; providing a short title; amending s.
120 1002.20, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made
121 by the act; amending s. 1006.20, F.S.; requiring
122 certain students to receive an electrocardiogram to
123 participate in athletics, beginning on a specified
124 date; requiring the Florida High School Athletic
125 Association (FHSAA) to adopt a schedule requiring
126 that, by a specified date, certain students receive,
127 before competing, at least one electrocardiogram as a
128 part of their medical evaluation; requiring that the
129 FHSAA bylaws specify those students who must receive
130 an electrocardiogram; revising provisions related to
131 parental objections to requirements for participation
132 in athletics to include objection to
133 electrocardiograms; requiring that parents who object
134 to an electrocardiogram provide a specified release
135 from liability; requiring the FHSAA to develop a
136 standard form to document exceptions; providing an
137 effective date.