Sec. 38.158. TRAINING COURSES. (a) The University Interscholastic League shall approve for coaches of interscholastic athletic activities training courses that provide for not less than two hours of training in the subject matter of concussions, including evaluation, prevention, symptoms, risks, and long-term effects. The league shall maintain an updated list of individuals and organizations authorized by the league to provide the training.
(b) The Department of State Health Services Advisory Board of Athletic Trainers shall approve for athletic trainers training courses in the subject matter of concussions and shall maintain an updated list of individuals and organizations authorized by the board to provide the training.
(c) The following persons must take a training course in accordance with Subsection (e) from an authorized training provider at least once every two years:
(1) a coach of an interscholastic athletic activity;
(2) a licensed health care professional who serves as a member of a concussion oversight team and is an employee, representative, or agent of a school district or open-enrollment charter school; and
(3) a licensed health care professional who serves on a volunteer basis as a member of a concussion oversight team for a school district or open-enrollment charter school.
(d) A physician who serves as a member of a concussion oversight team shall, to the greatest extent practicable, periodically take an appropriate continuing medical education course in the subject matter of concussions.
(e) For purposes of Subsection (c):
(1) a coach must take a course described by Subsection (a);
(2) an athletic trainer must take:
(A) a course described by Subsection (b); or
(B) a course concerning the subject matter of concussions that has been approved for continuing education credit by the appropriate licensing authority for the profession; and
(3) a licensed health care professional, other than an athletic trainer, must take:
(A) a course described by Subsection (a) or (b); or
(B) a course concerning the subject matter of concussions that has been approved for continuing education credit by the appropriate licensing authority for the profession.
(f) Each person described by Subsection (c) must submit proof of timely completion of an approved course in compliance with Subsection (e) to the school district superintendent or the superintendent's designee or, in the case of a home-rule school district or open-enrollment charter school, a person who serves the function of a superintendent or that person's designee.
(g) A licensed health care professional who is not in compliance with the training requirements under this section may not serve on a concussion oversight team in any capacity.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 781 (H.B. 2038), Sec. 2, eff. June 17, 2011.
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