Title: Youth Athletic Coaches

Summary: Requires certain sanctioning bodies to disqualify person from acting as coach for remainder of season if that person is removed from game by official.

Full Text:
An act relating to youth athletic coaches; amending s. 943.0438, F.S.; requiring certain sanctioning bodies to disqualify a person from acting as a coach for the remainder of the season if that person is removed from a game by an official; providing an effective date. 8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10 Section 1. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (2) of section 943.0438, Florida Statutes, to read: 943.0438 Athletic coaches for independent sanctioning authorities.-(2) An independent sanctioning authority shall: (e) Disqualify a person from serving as an athletic coach of a team in which any team member is years of age or younger, for the remainder of the team's season, if such coach is suspended, ejected, or otherwise removed from a game by a game official. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.