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.