LRB-2841/1
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2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
August 27, 2013 - Introduced by Representatives Ripp, Berceau, Brooks, Craig,
Endsley, Murphy, Nass, Ohnstad, Pridemore, Ringhand, Spiros, Strachota,
Thiesfeldt and Wright, cosponsored by Senators Farrow,
Darling,
Grothman, Harsdorf, Risser, L. Taylor and Lehman. Referred to Committee
on Education.
AB343,1,3
1An Act to renumber 118.293 (3); and
to create 118.293 (3) (b) of the statutes;
2relating to: the distribution by schools of a concussion and head injury
3information sheet and the participation by pupils in a youth athletic activity.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a person operating a "youth athletic activity," generally
defined as an organized athletic activity in which a majority of the participants are
under 19 years of age, must distribute to participants at the start of the season for
that activity a concussion and head injury information sheet. No person may
participate in the activity unless he or she returns the information sheet signed by
the person and, if he or she is under the age of 19, by his or her parent or guardian.
This bill provides that a public or private school is not required to distribute an
information sheet to a pupil who wishes to participate in a youth athletic activity
operated by the school during a school year, and that a pupil may participate in that
youth athletic activity without returning the information sheet for that activity, if the
pupil returned an appropriately signed information sheet for another youth athletic
activity operated by the school during the same school year.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB343,1
4Section
1. 118.293 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 118.293 (3) (a).
AB343,2
1Section
2. 118.293 (3) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
AB343,2,82
118.293
(3) (b) Notwithstanding par. (a), a public or private school is not
3required to distribute an information sheet to a pupil enrolled in the school who
4wishes to participate in a youth athletic activity operated by the school during a
5school year, and a pupil enrolled in the school may participate in that youth athletic
6activity without returning an appropriately signed information sheet for that
7activity, if the pupil has returned an appropriately signed information sheet for
8another youth athletic activity operated by the school during the same school year.
