Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1070
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/19/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Simon) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. This act may be cited as the “Second Chance
    6  Act.”
    7         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (17) of section
    8  1002.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    9         1002.20 K-12 student and parent rights.—Parents of public
   10  school students must receive accurate and timely information
   11  regarding their child’s academic progress and must be informed
   12  of ways they can help their child to succeed in school. K-12
   13  students and their parents are afforded numerous statutory
   14  rights including, but not limited to, the following:
   15         (17) ATHLETICS; PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL.—
   16         (b) Medical evaluation and electrocardiogram.—Students must
   17  satisfactorily pass a medical evaluation each year and, as
   18  applicable under s. 1006.20, receive an electrocardiogram before
   19  participating in athletics, unless the parent objects in writing
   20  based on religious tenets or practices or provides a written
   21  statement from a physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter
   22  459 that the student does not require an electrocardiogram, in
   23  accordance with the provisions of s. 1006.20(2)(d).
   24         Section 3. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (2) of
   25  section 1006.20, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   26         1006.20 Athletics in public K-12 schools.—
   27         (2) ADOPTION OF BYLAWS, POLICIES, OR GUIDELINES.—
   28         (c) The FHSAA shall adopt bylaws that require the
   29  following:
   30         1.Require All students participating in interscholastic
   31  athletic competition or who are candidates for an
   32  interscholastic athletic team to satisfactorily pass a medical
   33  evaluation each year before participating in interscholastic
   34  athletic competition or engaging in any practice, tryout,
   35  workout, conditioning, or other physical activity associated
   36  with the student’s candidacy for an interscholastic athletic
   37  team, including activities that occur outside of the school
   38  year. Such medical evaluation may be administered only by a
   39  practitioner licensed under chapter 458, chapter 459, chapter
   40  460, or s. 464.012 or registered under s. 464.0123 and in good
   41  standing with the practitioner’s regulatory board. The bylaws
   42  shall establish requirements for eliciting a student’s medical
   43  history and performing the medical evaluation required under
   44  this paragraph, which shall include a physical assessment of the
   45  student’s physical capabilities to participate in
   46  interscholastic athletic competition as contained in a uniform
   47  preparticipation physical evaluation and history form. The
   48  evaluation form must shall incorporate the recommendations of
   49  the American Heart Association for participation cardiovascular
   50  screening and must shall provide a place for the signature of
   51  the practitioner performing the evaluation with an attestation
   52  that each examination procedure listed on the form was performed
   53  by the practitioner or by someone under the direct supervision
   54  of the practitioner. The form must shall also contain a place
   55  for the practitioner to indicate if a referral to another
   56  practitioner was made in lieu of completion of a certain
   57  examination procedure. The form must shall provide a place for
   58  the practitioner to whom the student was referred to complete
   59  the remaining sections and attest to that portion of the
   60  examination. The preparticipation physical evaluation form must
   61  shall advise students to complete a cardiovascular assessment
   62  and must shall include information concerning alternative
   63  cardiovascular evaluation and diagnostic tests. Results of such
   64  medical evaluation must be provided to the school. A student is
   65  not eligible to participate, as provided in s. 1006.15(3), in
   66  any interscholastic athletic competition or engage in any
   67  practice, tryout, workout, or other physical activity associated
   68  with the student’s candidacy for an interscholastic athletic
   69  team until the results of the medical evaluation have been
   70  received and approved by the school.
   71         2.Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, students
   72  identified by the FHSAA who participate in interscholastic
   73  athletic competition or are candidates for an interscholastic
   74  athletic team to receive an electrocardiogram as a part of the
   75  student’s medical evaluation. The FHSAA shall adopt a schedule
   76  to require that, by the 2028-2029 school year, each student who
   77  participates in interscholastic athletic competition or is a
   78  candidate for an interscholastic athletic team has received at
   79  least one electrocardiogram as a part of the student’s medical
   80  evaluation before participation. The FHSAA bylaws must include
   81  the criteria used to determine the students required to receive
   82  an electrocardiogram in the 2029-2030 school year and
   83  thereafter.
   84         (d)1. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (c), a
   85  student may participate in interscholastic athletic competition
   86  or be a candidate for an interscholastic athletic team if the
   87  parent of the student objects in writing to the student
   88  undergoing a medical evaluation or receiving an
   89  electrocardiogram because such evaluation or electrocardiogram
   90  is contrary to his or her religious tenets or practices.
   91  However, in such case, there shall be no liability on the part
   92  of any person or entity in a position to otherwise rely on the
   93  results of such medical evaluation or electrocardiogram for any
   94  damages resulting from the student’s injury or death arising
   95  directly from the student’s participation in interscholastic
   96  athletics when where an undisclosed medical condition that would
   97  have been revealed in the medical evaluation or
   98  electrocardiogram is a proximate cause of the injury or death.
   99  If a parent of a student objects in writing to the student
  100  receiving an electrocardiogram on the grounds that it is
  101  contrary to the parent’s or student’s religious tenets or
  102  practices, the parent must provide a written release of
  103  liability prepared by an attorney in good standing with The
  104  Florida Bar. Alternatively, a parent may provide a written
  105  statement from a physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter
  106  459 and in good standing with the applicable regulatory board
  107  that the student does not require an electrocardiogram.
  108         2. The FHSAA shall develop a standard form to document
  109  exceptions granted under this paragraph.
  110         Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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  112  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
  113  And the title is amended as follows:
  114         Delete everything before the enacting clause
  115  and insert:
  116                        A bill to be entitled                      
  117         An act relating to electrocardiograms for student
  118         athletes; providing a short title; amending s.
  119         1002.20, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made
  120         by the act; amending s. 1006.20, F.S.; requiring
  121         certain students to receive an electrocardiogram to
  122         participate in athletics, beginning on a specified
  123         date; requiring the Florida High School Athletic
  124         Association (FHSAA) to adopt a schedule requiring
  125         that, by a specified date, certain students receive,
  126         before competing, at least one electrocardiogram as a
  127         part of their medical evaluation; requiring that the
  128         FHSAA bylaws include the criteria used to determine
  129         the students required to receive an electrocardiogram;
  130         revising provisions related to parental objections to
  131         requirements for participation in athletics to include
  132         objection to electrocardiograms; requiring that
  133         parents who object to an electrocardiogram provide a
  134         specified release from liability; requiring the FHSAA
  135         to develop a standard form to document exceptions;
  136         providing an effective date.