PRINTER'S NO. 1486
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1093
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY SABATINA, COSTA, BAKER, FONTANA, DINNIMAN,
BARTOLOTTA AND RAFFERTY, DECEMBER 22, 2015
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, DECEMBER 22, 2015
AN ACT
Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
act relating to the public school system, including certain
provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
laws relating thereto," in school health services, providing
for cardiac assessments of participants in extracurricular
athletic activities.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known
as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 1425. Cardiac Assessments of Participants in
Extracurricular Athletic Activities.--(a) A school district
shall require a student who is required under rule or policy of
the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association to receive
a physical examination before being allowed to participate in an
athletic activity sponsored or sanctioned by the Pennsylvania
Interscholastic Athletic Association to also have administered
to the student an electrocardiogram before being allowed to
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participate in the activity, including a practice for the
activity, as follows:
(1) one time before the student's first year of
participation; and
(2) another time before the student's third year of
participation.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed as creating a
cause of action or liability against an appropriately licensed
or certified health care professional, a school district or a
district officer or employe for the injury or death of a student
participating in or practicing for an athletic activity
sponsored or sanctioned by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic
Athletic Association based on or in connection with the
administration or evaluation of or reliance on an
electrocardiogram or on any echocardiogram.
(c) The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association
shall adopt rules as necessary to administer this section,
including a rule for granting a waiver from administration of an
electrocardiogram under this section to a student if, for any
reason, the parent of or person standing in parental relation to
the student submits a written request for the waiver.
Section 2. This act shall apply to the 2016-2017 school year
and each school year thereafter.
Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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