Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1070
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/02/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Simon) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    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.—Students must satisfactorily pass a
   17  medical evaluation each year and, as applicable under s.
   18  1006.20, receive an electrocardiogram before participating in
   19  athletics, unless the parent objects in writing based on
   20  religious tenets or practices or secures a certificate of
   21  medical exception, in accordance with the provisions of s.
   22  1006.20(2)(d).
   23         Section 3. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (2) of
   24  section 1006.20, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   25         1006.20 Athletics in public K-12 schools.—
   26         (2) ADOPTION OF BYLAWS, POLICIES, OR GUIDELINES.—
   27         (c)1. The FHSAA shall adopt bylaws that require all
   28  students participating or seeking to participate in
   29  interscholastic athletic competition or who are candidates for
   30  an interscholastic athletic team to satisfactorily pass a
   31  medical evaluation each year before participating in
   32  interscholastic athletic competition or engaging in any
   33  practice, tryout, workout, conditioning, or other physical
   34  activity associated with the student’s candidacy for an
   35  interscholastic athletic team, including activities that occur
   36  outside of the school year. Such medical evaluation may be
   37  administered only by a practitioner licensed under chapter 458,
   38  chapter 459, chapter 460, or s. 464.012 or registered under s.
   39  464.0123 and in good standing with the practitioner’s regulatory
   40  board.
   41         2. The FHSAA shall adopt bylaws that require all students
   42  participating or seeking to participate in interscholastic
   43  athletic competition to pass an electrocardiogram (ECG)
   44  screening before participating in interscholastic athletic
   45  competition or engaging in any practice, tryout, workout,
   46  conditioning, or other physical activity associated with the
   47  student’s candidacy for an interscholastic athletic team,
   48  including activities that occur outside of the school year. The
   49  electrocardiogram screening must be conducted in accordance with
   50  standards established by the FHSAA’s Sports Medicine Advisory
   51  Committee. Beginning in the 2028-2029 school year and
   52  thereafter, every high school student participating or seeking
   53  to participate in interscholastic athletic competition for the
   54  first time must complete at least one electrocardiogram
   55  screening. FHSAA member schools are encouraged to collaborate
   56  with public and private partners to offer low cost or free
   57  electrocardiogram screenings for this purpose.
   58         3. The FHSAA bylaws must shall establish requirements for
   59  eliciting a student’s medical history and performing the medical
   60  evaluation and electrocardiogram required under this paragraph,
   61  which shall include a physical assessment of the student’s
   62  physical capabilities to participate in interscholastic athletic
   63  competition as contained in a uniform preparticipation physical
   64  evaluation and history form. The evaluation form must: shall
   65         a. Incorporate the recommendations of the American Heart
   66  Association for participation cardiovascular screening.
   67         b.and shall Provide a place for the signature of the
   68  practitioner performing the evaluation with an attestation that
   69  each examination procedure listed on the form was performed by
   70  the practitioner or by someone under the direct supervision of
   71  the practitioner. The form must shall also contain a place for
   72  the practitioner to indicate whether if a referral to another
   73  practitioner was made in lieu of completion of a certain
   74  examination procedure. The form must shall provide a place for
   75  the practitioner to whom the student was referred to complete
   76  the remaining sections and attest to that portion of the
   77  examination.
   78         c.The preparticipation physical evaluation form shall
   79  Advise students to complete a cardiovascular assessment and
   80  electrocardiogram, shall include information concerning
   81  alternative cardiovascular evaluation and diagnostic tests, and
   82  require the. results of such medical evaluation to must be
   83  provided to the school.
   84         d. Include a section to record either a medical clearance
   85  by the practitioner allowing the student to participate in
   86  interscholastic athletic competition or recommendations for
   87  follow-up treatment by an appropriate health care practitioner
   88  trained in the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of
   89  cardiovascular abnormalities in athletes as defined by the
   90  FHSAA’s Sports Medicine Advisory Committee.
   91         4. A student is not eligible to participate, as provided in
   92  s. 1006.15(3), in any interscholastic athletic competition or
   93  engage in any practice, tryout, workout, or other physical
   94  activity associated with the student’s candidacy for an
   95  interscholastic athletic team until the results of the medical
   96  evaluation have been received and approved by the school.
   97         (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (c), a
   98  student may participate in interscholastic athletic competition
   99  or be a candidate for an interscholastic athletic team if:
  100         1. The parent of the student objects in writing to the
  101  student undergoing a medical evaluation or receiving an
  102  electrocardiogram because such evaluation or electrocardiogram
  103  is contrary to his or her religious tenets or practices.
  104         2. A practitioner licensed under chapter 458, chapter 459,
  105  chapter 460, or s. 464.012 or registered under s. 464.0123 and
  106  in good standing with the practitioner’s regulatory board
  107  provides a certificate of medical exception. However, in such
  108  case, there is shall be no liability on the part of any person
  109  or entity in a position to otherwise rely on the results of such
  110  medical evaluation or electrocardiogram for any damages
  111  resulting from the student’s injury or death arising directly
  112  from the student’s participation in interscholastic athletics
  113  where an undisclosed medical condition that would have been
  114  revealed in the medical evaluation or electrocardiogram is a
  115  proximate cause of the injury or death.
  116         3. The student submits a standard form, developed by the
  117  FHSAA, to document exceptions granted under this paragraph which
  118  must be signed and notarized by a student’s parent or legal
  119  guardian and received by the FHSAA member school before a
  120  student may participate in any interscholastic activity.
  121         Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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  123  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
  124  And the title is amended as follows:
  125         Delete everything before the enacting clause
  126  and insert:
  127                        A bill to be entitled                      
  128         An act relating to electrocardiograms for student
  129         athletes; providing a short title; amending s.
  130         1002.20, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made
  131         by the act; amending s. 1006.20, F.S.; requiring the
  132         Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to
  133         adopt bylaws requiring certain students to pass an
  134         electrocardiogram screening before participating in
  135         certain activities; providing requirements for the
  136         form for reporting electrocardiogram results;
  137         providing an exceptions; requiring students seeking an
  138         exception to submit a form developed by the FHSAA
  139         before they may participate in an interscholastic
  140         activity; providing an effective date.