Florida Senate - 2020 SB 1696
By Senator Perry
8-01383-20 20201696__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to student athletes; amending s.
3 1006.165, F.S.; revising requirements for the
4 availability of automated external defibrillators on
5 school grounds; delaying implementation of a
6 requirement that certain school employees and
7 volunteers complete specified training; requiring that
8 a school employee or volunteer who has received the
9 training be present at certain athletic activities, by
10 a specified date; requiring the Florida High School
11 Athletic Association to establish certain requirements
12 relating to student athlete safety; requiring the
13 association to notify member schools of certain
14 information; amending s. 1006.20, F.S.; requiring that
15 a medical evaluation be performed before a student
16 begins conditioning; applying requirements related to
17 medical evaluations to activities occurring outside
18 the school year; providing an effective date.
19
20 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
21
22 Section 1. Section 1006.165, Florida Statutes, is amended
23 to read:
24 1006.165 Well-being of students participating in
25 extracurricular activities Automated external defibrillator;
26 user training.—
27 (1)(a) Each public school that is a member of the Florida
28 High School Athletic Association must have an operational
29 automated external defibrillator on the school grounds. The
30 defibrillator must be available in a clearly marked and
31 publicized location for each athletic contest, practice,
32 workout, or conditioning session, including those conducted
33 outside of the school year. Public and private partnerships are
34 encouraged to cover the cost associated with the purchase and
35 placement of the defibrillator and training in the use of the
36 defibrillator.
37 (b)(2) Beginning June 1, 2021, a school employee or
38 volunteer with current training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
39 and use of a defibrillator must be present at each athletic
40 event during and outside of the school year, including
41 practices, workouts, and conditioning sessions. The training
42 received by the employee or volunteer must include Each school
43 must ensure that all employees or volunteers who are reasonably
44 expected to use the device obtain appropriate training,
45 including completion of a course in cardiopulmonary
46 resuscitation or a basic first aid course that includes
47 cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, and demonstrated
48 proficiency in the use of an automated external defibrillator.
49 All employees or volunteers who may be reasonably expected to
50 use a defibrillator must complete the training.
51 (c)(3) The location of each automated external
52 defibrillator must be registered with a local emergency medical
53 services medical director. Each individual required to complete
54 the training under paragraph (b) must be notified annually of
55 the location of each defibrillator on the school grounds.
56 (2)(a) In order to better protect student athletes
57 participating in athletics during hot weather and to avoid
58 preventable injury or death, the Florida High School Athletic
59 Association shall:
60 1. Make available to each member school training and
61 resources for the effective monitoring of heat stress using
62 WetBulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) and heat index levels.
63 2. Establish WBGT and heat index levels at which a school
64 must make a cooling zone available for each outdoor athletic
65 contest, practice, workout, or conditioning session.
66 3. Require member schools to monitor heat stress using WBGT
67 and heat index levels and modify athletic activities
68 accordingly, including suspending or moving activities.
69 4. Establish hydration guidelines, including appropriate
70 introduction of electrolytes after extended activities or when a
71 student participates in multiple athletic activities in a day.
72 5. Establish requirements for cooling zones, including, at
73 a minimum, the immediate availability of cold-water immersion
74 tubs or equivalent means to rapidly cool internal body
75 temperature when a student exhibits symptoms of exertional heat
76 stroke, and for the presence at athletic activities of an
77 employee or volunteer trained to implement and administer the
78 cooling zones.
79 6. Require each school’s emergency action plan to include a
80 procedure for onsite cooling using cold-water immersion or
81 equivalent means before a student is transported to a hospital
82 for exertional heat stroke.
83
84 The requirements of this paragraph apply year round.
85 (b) All athletic coaches and sponsors of extracurricular
86 activities involving outdoor practices or events shall complete
87 annual training in exertional heat illness identification,
88 prevention, and response, including effective administration of
89 cooling zones.
90 (3) The board of directors for the Florida High School
91 Athletic Association shall notify each member school of any
92 policy change recommended by the Sports Medicine Advisory
93 Committee which it considers at a board meeting, but does not
94 adopt. The notification must include the board’s rationale for
95 not adopting the committee recommendation and must be provided
96 in writing to each member school within 30 days after the board
97 meeting.
98 (4) The use of automated external defibrillators by
99 employees and volunteers is covered under ss. 768.13 and
100 768.1325.
101 Section 2. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
102 1006.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
103 1006.20 Athletics in public K-12 schools.—
104 (2) ADOPTION OF BYLAWS, POLICIES, OR GUIDELINES.—
105 (c) The FHSAA shall adopt bylaws that require all students
106 participating in interscholastic athletic competition or who are
107 candidates for an interscholastic athletic team to
108 satisfactorily pass a medical evaluation each year prior to
109 participating in interscholastic athletic competition or
110 engaging in any practice, tryout, workout, conditioning, or
111 other physical activity associated with the student’s candidacy
112 for an interscholastic athletic team, including activities that
113 occur outside of the school year. Such medical evaluation may be
114 administered only by a practitioner licensed under chapter 458,
115 chapter 459, chapter 460, or s. 464.012, and in good standing
116 with the practitioner’s regulatory board. The bylaws must shall
117 establish requirements for eliciting a student’s medical history
118 and performing the medical evaluation required under this
119 paragraph, which must shall include a physical assessment of the
120 student’s physical capabilities to participate in
121 interscholastic athletic competition as contained in a uniform
122 preparticipation physical evaluation and history form. The
123 evaluation form must shall incorporate the recommendations of
124 the American Heart Association for participation cardiovascular
125 screening and shall provide a place for the signature of the
126 practitioner performing the evaluation with an attestation that
127 each examination procedure listed on the form was performed by
128 the practitioner or by someone under the direct supervision of
129 the practitioner. The form shall also must contain a place for
130 the practitioner to indicate if a referral to another
131 practitioner was made in lieu of completion of a certain
132 examination procedure. The form must shall provide a place for
133 the practitioner to whom the student was referred to complete
134 the remaining sections and attest to that portion of the
135 examination. The preparticipation physical evaluation form must
136 shall advise students to complete a cardiovascular assessment
137 and must shall include information concerning alternative
138 cardiovascular evaluation and diagnostic tests. Results of such
139 medical evaluation must be provided to the school. A student is
140 not eligible to participate, as provided in s. 1006.15(3), in
141 any interscholastic athletic competition or engage in any
142 practice, tryout, workout, or other physical activity associated
143 with the student’s candidacy for an interscholastic athletic
144 team until the results of the medical evaluation have been
145 received and approved by the school.
146 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.