Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to student concussion and brain injury policies
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 17, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 24, 2021
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill provides that return-to-learn plans for a student removed from participation in an extracurricular interscholastic activity and diagnosed with a concussion or brain injury shall be developed for students in grades through based on protocols supported by guidelines of the centers for disease control and prevention of the United States department of health and human services. Under current law, such plans are developed for students in grades through based on guidance developed by the brain injury association of America.
Read the full explanation
The bill requires the department of public health, in collaboration with the department of education, to adopt rules establishing return-to-learn protocols that will allow for education personnel and the families of students diagnosed with a concussion or brain injury to collaborate with licensed health care providers to provide a process for a student to return to learn after a concussion or brain injury. The bill specifies certain content for the protocols. The bill requires the department of public health to provide the protocols to the board of directors of each school district and the authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school, which shall adopt the protocols in a timely manner. For school years beginning on or after July 1, 2021, the bill requires the board of directors of each school district and the authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school to provide the parent or guardian of each student in grades kindergarten through the protocols as part of materials provided to parents or guardians prior to the start of the school year. Such information shall also be provided to a parent or guardian of a new student arriving after the school year has started.
House subcommittee
Named February 24, 2021. On March 1, 2021 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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