HB 0463 2003
   
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6          The Committee on Education K-20 recommends the following:
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8          Committee Substitute
9          Remove the entire bill and insert:
10 A bill to be entitled
11          An act relating to the Florida High School Activities
12    Association; amending s. 1006.18, F.S.; conforming
13    provisions; amending s. 1006.20, F.S.; renaming the
14    association; revising procedures relating to student
15    physical assessments; adding an appointee to the board of
16    directors; deleting an obsolete report; requiring a report
17    relating to policy for separate championships in high
18    school sports for private and public schools; providing an
19    effective date.
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21          Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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23          Section 1. Section 1006.18, Florida Statutes, is amended
24    to read:
25          1006.18 Cheerleader safety standards.--The Florida High
26    School AthleticActivitiesAssociation or successor organization
27    shall adopt statewide uniform safety standards for student
28    cheerleaders and spirit groups that participate in any school
29    activity or extracurricular student activity. The Florida High
30    School AthleticActivitiesAssociation or successor organization
31    shall adopt the "Official High School Spirit Rules," published
32    by the National Federation of State High School Associations, as
33    the statewide uniform safety standards.
34          Section 2. Subsection (1), paragraph (c) of subsection
35    (2), paragraph (a) of subsection (4), and subsection (10) of
36    section 1006.20, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
37          1006.20 Athletics in public K-12 schools.--
38          (1) GOVERNING NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.--The Florida High
39    School AthleticActivitiesAssociation is designated as the
40    governing nonprofit organization of athletics in Florida public
41    schools. If the Florida High School AthleticActivities
42    Association fails to meet the provisions of this section, the
43    commissioner shall designate a nonprofit organization to govern
44    athletics with the approval of the State Board of Education. The
45    organization is not to be a state agency as defined in s.
46    120.52. The organization shall be subject to the provisions of
47    s. 1006.19. A private school that wishes to engage in high
48    school athletic competition with a public high school may become
49    a member of the organization. The bylaws of the organization are
50    to be the rules by which high school athletic programs in its
51    member schools, and the students who participate in them, are
52    governed, unless otherwise specifically provided by statute. For
53    the purposes of this section, "high school" includes grades 6
54    through 12.
55          (2) ADOPTION OF BYLAWS.--
56          (c) The organization shall adopt bylaws that require all
57    students participating in interscholastic athletic competition
58    or who are candidates for an interscholastic athletic team to
59    satisfactorily pass a medical evaluation each year prior to
60    participating in interscholastic athletic competition or
61    engaging in any practice, tryout, workout, or other physical
62    activity associated with the student's candidacy for an
63    interscholastic athletic team. Such medical evaluation can only
64    be administered by a practitioner licensed under the provisions
65    of chapter 458, chapter 459, chapter 460, or s. 464.012, and in
66    good standing with the practitioner's regulatory board. The
67    bylaws shall establish requirements for eliciting a student's
68    medical history and performing the medical evaluation required
69    under this paragraph, which shall include a physical assessment
70    of the student'sminimum standards for the physical capabilities
71    to participatenecessary for participationin interscholastic
72    athletic competition as contained in a uniform preparticipation
73    physical evaluation form. The evaluation form shall provide a
74    place for the signature of the practitioner performing the
75    evaluation with an attestation that each examination procedure
76    listed on the form was performed by the practitioner or by
77    someone under the direct supervision of the practitioner. The
78    form shall also contain a place for the practitioner to indicate
79    if a referral to another practitioner was made in lieu of
80    completion of a certain examination procedure. The form shall
81    provide a place for the practitioner to whom the student was
82    referred to complete the remaining sections and attest to that
83    portion of the examination. The preparticipation physical
84    evaluation form shall advise students to complete a
85    cardiovascular assessment and shall include information
86    concerning alternative cardiovascular evaluation and diagnostic
87    tests. Practitioners administering medical evaluations pursuant
88    to this subsection must, at a minimum, solicit all information
89    required by, and perform a physical assessment according to, the
90    uniform preparticipation physical evaluation form referred to in
91    this paragraph. Based on the information provided and the
92    physical assessment, the practitioner shall determine if the
93    student is physically capable of participating in
94    interscholastic athletic competitionknow the minimum standards
95    established by the organization and certify that the student
96    meets the standards. If the practitioner determines that there
97    are any abnormal findings in the cardiovascular system, the
98    student may not participate until a further cardiovascular
99    assessment, which may include an EKG, is performed that
100    indicates the student is physically capable of participating in
101    interscholastic athletic competitionunless a subsequent EKG or
102    other cardiovascular assessment indicates that the abnormality
103    will not place the student at risk during such participation.
104    Results of such medical evaluation must be provided to the
105    school. No student shall be eligible to participate in any
106    interscholastic athletic competition or engage in any practice,
107    tryout, workout, or other physical activity associated with the
108    student's candidacy for an interscholastic athletic team until
109    the results of the medical evaluation clearingverifying that
110    the student for participationhas satisfactorily passed the
111    evaluationhave been received and approved by the school.
112          (4) BOARD OF DIRECTORS.--
113          (a) The executive authority of the organization shall be
114    vested in its board of directors. Any entity that appoints
115    members to the board of directors shall examine the ethnic and
116    demographic composition of the board when selecting candidates
117    for appointment and shall, to the extent possible, make
118    appointments that reflect state demographic and population
119    trends. The board of directors shall be composed of 1615
120    persons, as follows:
121          1. Four public member school representatives, one elected
122    from among its public school representative members within each
123    of the four administrative regions.
124          2. Four nonpublic member school representatives, one
125    elected from among its nonpublic school representative members
126    within each of the four administrative regions.
127          3. ThreeTworepresentatives appointed by the
128    commissioner, one appointed from the two northernmost
129    administrative regions and one appointed from the two
130    southernmost administrative regions. The third representative
131    shall be appointed to balance the board for diversity or state
132    population trends, or both.
133          4. Two district school superintendents, one elected from
134    the two northernmost administrative regions by the members in
135    those regions and one elected from the two southernmost
136    administrative regions by the members in those regions.
137          5. Two district school board members, one elected from the
138    two northernmost administrative regions by the members in those
139    regions and one elected from the two southernmost administrative
140    regions by the members in those regions.
141          6. The commissioner or his or her designee from the
142    department executive staff.
143          (10) EXAMINATION; CRITERIA;REPORT.--The board of
144    directors of the Florida High School AthleticActivities
145    Association shall undertake an examination of alternative
146    methods for implementation of a policy requiring district,
147    regional, and state championships in high school sports for
148    public schools to be separate from district, regional, and state
149    championships in high school sports for private schools. The
150    board of directors shall submit a report of its findings,
151    including any recommendations, to the commissioner, the
152    President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
153    Representatives no later than March 1, 2004.the following:
154          (a) Alternative criteria for establishing administrative
155    regions to include, but not be limited to, population.
156          (b) Procedures to ensure appropriate diversity in the
157    membership of the board of directors.
158          (c) Opportunities to secure corporate financial support
159    for high school athletic programs.
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161          The board of directors shall submit to the commissioner, the
162    President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
163    Representatives not later than March 1, 2003, a report on the
164    actions taken in the examination of each of the three topics
165    listed in this subsection, the findings, and the actions to be
166    taken to implement the findings and the target date for
167    implementation.
168          Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.