Bill Text: IL HB3258 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, an association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among high schools and high school students within this State shall require a pre-competition medical meeting prior to any interscholastic athletic activity; defines terms. Provides for the participants of the meeting and what must be reviewed at each meeting. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3258 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3258-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB3258 Introduced , by Rep. Dan Brady SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 25/1.25 new
Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, an association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among high schools and high school students within this State shall require a pre-competition medical meeting prior to any interscholastic athletic activity; defines terms. Provides for the participants of the meeting and what must be reviewed at each meeting. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act
is amended by adding Section 1.25 as follows:
(105 ILCS 25/1.25 new)
Sec. 1.25. Pre-competition medical meeting.
(a) In this Section:
"Game administrator" means an employee of the school
district hosting an interscholastic athletic activity,
including, but not limited to, a principal, superintendent,
athletic director, or head coach.
"Game official" means a person who officiates at an
interscholastic athletic activity, including, but not limited
to, a referee, an umpire, or any person enrolled as a game
official by the Illinois High School Association.
"Interscholastic athletic activity" means any organized
school-sponsored or school-sanctioned activity for students,
generally outside of school instructional hours, under the
direction of a coach, athletic director, or band leader,
including, but not limited to, baseball, basketball,
cheerleading, cross-country running, fencing, field hockey,
football, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, marching

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band, rugby, soccer, skating, softball, swimming and diving,
tennis, indoor and outdoor track, ultimate Frisbee,
volleyball, water polo, and wrestling. All interscholastic
athletics are deemed to be interscholastic athletic
activities.
"Qualified medical professional" means a paramedic,
emergency medical technician, physician, nurse, or athletic
trainer.
(b) Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, an
association or other entity that has as one of its purposes
promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing
for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic
competition among high schools and high school students within
this State shall require a pre-competition medical meeting
prior to any interscholastic athletic activity. Participants
of the meeting must include all of the following persons:
(1) The athletic activity's game administrators and
game officials.
(2) A qualified medical professional.
(3) The head coach for each team participating in the
athletic activity.
If a qualified medical professional is unavailable for the
meeting, the game administrator of the school hosting the
athletic activity must notify the game officials of the
qualified medical professional's unavailability and must take
any steps necessary to ensure that an employee of the school

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district who has completed first aid training and
cardiopulmonary resuscitation training attends the meeting in
place of the absent qualified medical professional.
(c) During the pre-competition medical meeting, the
participants must review all of the following:
(1) The persons assigned to be the game administrators
for each team participating in the interscholastic
activity.
(2) If there is an on-site qualified medical
professional.
(3) If the school hosting the athletic activity has a
school-specific emergency action plan under subsection (i)
of Section 22-80 of the School Code.
(4) If the school hosting the athletic activity has an
on-site automated external defibrillator.
(5) The locations of the host school's emergency exits
and entrances.
If, during the meeting, a game official determines that a
qualified medical professional is not at the athletic activity
or the school does not have an on-site automated external
defibrillator or an emergency action plan, the game official
must report these findings to the association or other entity
organizing the activity.
(d) An association or other entity that has as one of its
purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner
providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic

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competition among high schools and high school students within
this State may adopt any necessary policies or procedures in
accordance with this Section.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.