H-8306

   Amend House File 2421, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 
<DIVISION I
COACHING AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENT>
   2.  Page 1, by striking lines 4 and 5 and inserting <the areas of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use.>
   3.  Page 1, line 9, after <requirements> by inserting <of this division>
   4.  Page 1, after line 9 by inserting: 
<DIVISION II
EXTRACURRICULAR INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC CONTESTS —— HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
   Sec. ___.  Section 280.13C, Code 2016, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  3A.  a.  The home team in an extracurricular interscholastic contest in which high school athletic teams participate in a collision sport shall ensure that a contest health care professional is present and available to assess athletic injuries at such contest.
   b.  If an athlete who is a member of a visiting team in an extracurricular interscholastic contest at which a contest health care professional is present and available to assess athletic injuries as provided in this section shows signs, symptoms, or behaviors consistent with a concussion or brain injury, the contest health care professional shall notify the visiting team’s athletic director within forty-eight hours after the contest occurs.
   c.  The department of education, the Iowa high school athletic association, and the Iowa girls high school athletic union shall establish a process whereby an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest can still take place when a contest health care professional who was scheduled to be present and available as provided in this section is not able to be present and available due to unforeseen circumstances.
   Sec. ___.  Section 280.13C, subsection 4, Code 2016, is amended by adding the following new paragraphs:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  0a.  “Collision sport” means football, soccer, or wrestling.
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  00a.  “Contest health care professional” means a licensed health care provider as defined in this subsection or an emergency medical care provider as defined in section 147A.1.
   Sec. ___.  IMPLEMENTATION OF DIVISION II OF THIS ACT.  Section 25B.2, subsection 3, shall not apply to this division of this Act.>
   5.  Title page, lines 2 and 3, by striking <certain emergency medical procedures training requirements> and inserting <requirements relating to the presence of health care professionals at certain extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests>
   6.  By renumbering as necessary.