No. HB 563
Filed under Healthcare.
Repetitive Head Impact Prevention; Requires parents and legal guardians registering child in high-risk sport to receive specified educational materials; provides requirements for such materials; requires certain athletic directors, coaches, referees, & trainers of high-risk sports to complete specified training; requires State Surgeon General, in collaboration with others, to develop specified continuing education courses for certain persons; establishes Florida Brain Health in Sports Panel within DOH; provides requirements for panel; authorizes department to use certain funds for certain purposes; provides rulemaking authority to department; designates Parkman-Lewis Day.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDParents registering a child in a high-risk sport like football, wrestling, or cheerleading must receive standardized brain-injury educational materials and sign an acknowledgment form before the child can participate, starting with the 2026-2027 school year.
Athletic directors, coaches, referees, and trainers of those sports at the youth and high school levels must complete annual training on repetitive head impacts and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, approved by the Department of Health.
The bill creates a Florida Brain Health in Sports Panel inside the Department of Health to study the issue and report policy recommendations to the Legislature every year starting in 2027, and directs new continuing-education courses for doctors, nurses, and other professionals.
AIBeginning with the 2026-2027 school year, a parent or legal guardian registering a child in a high-risk sport must receive standardized educational materials on repetitive head impacts and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, then sign and return an acknowledgment form before the child may participate.
AIAthletic directors, coaches, referees, and trainers of high-risk sports at the youth and high school levels must annually complete mandatory training on repetitive head impacts and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, approved by the Department of Health.
AIThe State Surgeon General must work with nonprofits, universities, and medical experts to build continuing education courses on repetitive head impacts, reaching physicians, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, coroners, suicide-prevention specialists, athletic trainers, coaches, and sports officials.
AIThe bill establishes a Florida Brain Health in Sports Panel inside the Department of Health, made up of scientists, medical professionals, educators, and stakeholders, which must give the Legislature an annual report on findings and policy recommendations starting January 1, 2027.
AIThe Department of Health may adopt rules necessary to carry out the new education, training, panel, and reporting requirements this section creates.