Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1696
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/27/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Education (Perry) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 60 - 97
    4  and insert:
    5         1. Make training and resources available to each member
    6  school for the effective monitoring of heat stress.
    7         2. Establish guidelines for monitoring heat stress and
    8  identify heat stress levels at which a school must make a
    9  cooling zone available for each outdoor athletic contest,
   10  practice, workout, or conditioning session. Heat stress must be
   11  determined by measuring the ambient temperature, humidity, wind
   12  speed, sun angle, and cloud cover at the site of the athletic
   13  activity.
   14         3. Require member schools to monitor heat stress and modify
   15  athletic activities, including suspending or moving activities,
   16  based on the heat stress guidelines.
   17         4. Establish hydration guidelines, including appropriate
   18  introduction of electrolytes after extended activities or when a
   19  student participates in multiple activities in a day.
   20         5. Establish requirements for cooling zones, including, at
   21  a minimum, the immediate availability of cold-water immersion
   22  tubs or equivalent means to rapidly cool internal body
   23  temperature when a student exhibits symptoms of exertional
   24  heatstroke and the presence of an employee or volunteer trained
   25  to administer cold-water immersion.
   26         6. Require each school’s emergency action plan, as required
   27  by the Florida High School Athletic Association, to include a
   28  procedure for onsite cooling using cold-water immersion or
   29  equivalent means before a student is transported to a hospital
   30  for exertional heatstroke.
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   32  The requirements of this paragraph apply year round.
   33         (b) Each athletic coach and sponsor of extracurricular
   34  activities involving outdoor practices or events shall annually
   35  complete training in exertional heat illness identification,
   36  prevention, and response, including the effective administration
   37  of cooling zones.
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   39  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   40  And the title is amended as follows:
   41         Delete lines 12 - 14
   42  and insert:
   43         relating to student athlete safety; amending s.
   44         1006.20, F.S.; requiring that