Florida Senate - 2020 CS for SB 1696
By the Committee on Education; and Senators Perry and Cruz
581-02644-20 20201696c1
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; amending s.
13 1006.20, F.S.; requiring that a medical evaluation be
14 performed before a student begins conditioning;
15 applying requirements related to medical evaluations
16 to activities occurring outside the school year;
17 providing an effective date.
18
19 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
20
21 Section 1. Section 1006.165, Florida Statutes, is amended
22 to read:
23 1006.165 Well-being of students participating in
24 extracurricular activities Automated external defibrillator;
25 user training.—
26 (1)(a) Each public school that is a member of the Florida
27 High School Athletic Association must have an operational
28 automated external defibrillator on the school grounds. The
29 defibrillator must be available in a clearly marked and
30 publicized location for each athletic contest, practice,
31 workout, or conditioning session, including those conducted
32 outside of the school year. Public and private partnerships are
33 encouraged to cover the cost associated with the purchase and
34 placement of the defibrillator and training in the use of the
35 defibrillator.
36 (b)(2) Beginning June 1, 2021, a school employee or
37 volunteer with current training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
38 and use of a defibrillator must be present at each athletic
39 event during and outside of the school year, including
40 practices, workouts, and conditioning sessions. The training
41 received by the employee or volunteer must include Each school
42 must ensure that all employees or volunteers who are reasonably
43 expected to use the device obtain appropriate training,
44 including completion of a course in cardiopulmonary
45 resuscitation or a basic first aid course that includes
46 cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, and demonstrated
47 proficiency in the use of an automated external defibrillator.
48 All employees or volunteers who may be reasonably expected to
49 use a defibrillator must complete the training.
50 (c)(3) The location of each automated external
51 defibrillator must be registered with a local emergency medical
52 services medical director. Each individual required to complete
53 the training under paragraph (b) must be notified annually of
54 the location of each defibrillator on the school grounds.
55 (2)(a) In order to better protect student athletes
56 participating in athletics during hot weather and to avoid
57 preventable injury or death, the Florida High School Athletic
58 Association shall:
59 1. Make training and resources available to each member
60 school for the effective monitoring of heat stress.
61 2. Establish guidelines for monitoring heat stress and
62 identify heat stress levels at which a school must make a
63 cooling zone available for each outdoor athletic contest,
64 practice, workout, or conditioning session. Heat stress must be
65 determined by measuring the ambient temperature, humidity, wind
66 speed, sun angle, and cloud cover at the site of the athletic
67 activity.
68 3. Require member schools to monitor heat stress and modify
69 athletic activities, including suspending or moving activities,
70 based on the heat stress guidelines.
71 4. Establish hydration guidelines, including appropriate
72 introduction of electrolytes after extended activities or when a
73 student participates in multiple activities in a day.
74 5. Establish requirements for cooling zones, including, at
75 a minimum, the immediate availability of cold-water immersion
76 tubs or equivalent means to rapidly cool internal body
77 temperature when a student exhibits symptoms of exertional
78 heatstroke and the presence of an employee or volunteer trained
79 to administer cold-water immersion.
80 6. Require each school’s emergency action plan, as required
81 by the Florida High School Athletic Association, to include a
82 procedure for onsite cooling using cold-water immersion or
83 equivalent means before a student is transported to a hospital
84 for exertional heatstroke.
85
86 The requirements of this paragraph apply year round.
87 (b) Each athletic coach and sponsor of extracurricular
88 activities involving outdoor practices or events shall annually
89 complete training in exertional heat illness identification,
90 prevention, and response, including the effective administration
91 of cooling zones.
92 (4) The use of automated external defibrillators by
93 employees and volunteers is covered under ss. 768.13 and
94 768.1325.
95 Section 2. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
96 1006.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
97 1006.20 Athletics in public K-12 schools.—
98 (2) ADOPTION OF BYLAWS, POLICIES, OR GUIDELINES.—
99 (c) The FHSAA shall adopt bylaws that require all students
100 participating in interscholastic athletic competition or who are
101 candidates for an interscholastic athletic team to
102 satisfactorily pass a medical evaluation each year prior to
103 participating in interscholastic athletic competition or
104 engaging in any practice, tryout, workout, conditioning, or
105 other physical activity associated with the student’s candidacy
106 for an interscholastic athletic team, including activities that
107 occur outside of the school year. Such medical evaluation may be
108 administered only by a practitioner licensed under chapter 458,
109 chapter 459, chapter 460, or s. 464.012, and in good standing
110 with the practitioner’s regulatory board. The bylaws must shall
111 establish requirements for eliciting a student’s medical history
112 and performing the medical evaluation required under this
113 paragraph, which must shall include a physical assessment of the
114 student’s physical capabilities to participate in
115 interscholastic athletic competition as contained in a uniform
116 preparticipation physical evaluation and history form. The
117 evaluation form must shall incorporate the recommendations of
118 the American Heart Association for participation cardiovascular
119 screening and shall provide a place for the signature of the
120 practitioner performing the evaluation with an attestation that
121 each examination procedure listed on the form was performed by
122 the practitioner or by someone under the direct supervision of
123 the practitioner. The form shall also must contain a place for
124 the practitioner to indicate if a referral to another
125 practitioner was made in lieu of completion of a certain
126 examination procedure. The form must shall provide a place for
127 the practitioner to whom the student was referred to complete
128 the remaining sections and attest to that portion of the
129 examination. The preparticipation physical evaluation form must
130 shall advise students to complete a cardiovascular assessment
131 and must shall include information concerning alternative
132 cardiovascular evaluation and diagnostic tests. Results of such
133 medical evaluation must be provided to the school. A student is
134 not eligible to participate, as provided in s. 1006.15(3), in
135 any interscholastic athletic competition or engage in any
136 practice, tryout, workout, or other physical activity associated
137 with the student’s candidacy for an interscholastic athletic
138 team until the results of the medical evaluation have been
139 received and approved by the school.
140 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.