I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3532 
To promote State requirements for local educational agencies and public 
elementary and secondary schools relating to the prevention and treat-
ment of concussions suffered by students. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 19, 2013 
Mr. BISHOP of New York (for himself and Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To promote State requirements for local educational agencies 
and public elementary and secondary schools relating 
to the prevention and treatment of concussions suffered 
by students. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Student 
Athletes From Concussions Act of 2013’’. 
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SEC. 2. MINIMUM STATE REQUIREMENTS. 
Part E of title IX of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking the heading relating to subpart 
2 and inserting the following: 
‘‘Subpart 3—Other Provisions’’; 
and 
(2) by inserting after subpart 1, the following 
new subpart: 
‘‘Subpart 2—State Requirements for the Prevention 
and Treatment of Concussions 
‘‘SEC. 9511. MINIMUM STATE REQUIREMENTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning fiscal year 2015, as 
a condition of receiving funds under this Act for a fiscal 
year, a State shall, not later than July 1 of the preceding 
fiscal year, certify to the Secretary in accordance with sub-
section (b) that the State has in effect and is enforcing 
a law or regulation that, at a minimum, establishes the 
following requirements: 
‘‘(1) LOCAL
EDUCATIONAL
AGENCY
CONCUS-
SION SAFETY AND MANAGEMENT PLAN.—Each local 
educational agency in the State (including each 
charter school that is considered a local educational 
agency under State law), in consultation with mem-
bers of the community in which the local educational 
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agency is located, shall develop and implement a 
standard plan for concussion safety and manage-
ment for public schools served by the local edu-
cational agency that includes— 
‘‘(A) the education of students, parents, 
and school personnel about concussions, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(i) the training of school personnel 
on evidence-based concussion safety and 
management, including on prevention, rec-
ognition, risk, academic consequences, and 
response for both initial and any subse-
quent concussions; and 
‘‘(ii) using, maintaining, and dissemi-
nating to students and parents release 
forms, treatment plans, observation, moni-
toring, and reporting forms, recordkeeping 
forms, and post-injury and prevention fact 
sheets about concussions; 
‘‘(B) supports for each student recovering 
from a concussion, including— 
‘‘(i) guiding the student in resuming 
participation in school-sponsored athletic 
activities and academic activities with the 
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help of a multidisciplinary concussion man-
agement team, which shall include— 
‘‘(I) a health care professional, 
the parents of such student, and other 
relevant school personnel; and 
‘‘(II) an individual who is as-
signed by the public school in which 
the student is enrolled to oversee and 
manage the recovery of the student; 
‘‘(ii) providing appropriate academic 
accommodations aimed at progressively re-
introducing cognitive demands on such a 
student; and 
‘‘(iii) if the student’s symptoms of 
concussion persist for a substantial period 
of time— 
‘‘(I) evaluating the student in ac-
cordance with section 614 of the Indi-
vidual with Disabilities Education Act 
(20 U.S.C. 1414) to determine wheth-
er the student is eligible for services 
under part B of such Act (20 U.S.C. 
1411 et seq.); or 
‘‘(II) evaluating whether the stu-
dent is eligible for services under sec-
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tion 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 
1973 (29 U.S.C. 794); and 
‘‘(C) best practices designed to ensure, 
with respect to concussions, the uniformity of 
safety standards, treatment, and management, 
including— 
‘‘(i) disseminating information on con-
cussion safety and management to the 
public; and 
‘‘(ii) applying best practice and uni-
form standards for concussion safety and 
management to all students enrolled in the 
public schools served by the local edu-
cational agency. 
‘‘(2) POSTING OF INFORMATION ON CONCUS-
SIONS.—Each public school in the State shall post 
on school grounds, in a manner that is visible to stu-
dents and school personnel, and make publicly avail-
able on the school website, information on concus-
sions that— 
‘‘(A) is based on peer-reviewed scientific 
evidence or consensus (such as information 
made available by the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention); 
‘‘(B) shall include— 
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‘‘(i) the risks posed by sustaining a 
concussion or multiple concussions; 
‘‘(ii) the actions a student should take 
in response to sustaining a concussion, in-
cluding the notification of school personnel; 
and 
‘‘(iii) the signs and symptoms of a 
concussion; and 
‘‘(C) may include— 
‘‘(i) the definition of a concussion 
under section 9512(1); 
‘‘(ii) the means available to the stu-
dent to reduce the incidence or recurrence 
of a concussion; and 
‘‘(iii) the effects of a concussion on 
academic learning and performance. 
‘‘(3) RESPONSE
TO
A
CONCUSSION.—If any 
school personnel of a public school in the State sus-
pect that a student has sustained a concussion dur-
ing a school-sponsored athletic activity or other 
school-sponsored activity— 
‘‘(A) the student shall be— 
‘‘(i) immediately removed from par-
ticipation in such activity; and 
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‘‘(ii) prohibited from resuming partici-
pation in school-sponsored athletic activi-
ties— 
‘‘(I) on the day the student sus-
tained the concussion; and 
‘‘(II) until the day the student is 
capable of resuming such participa-
tion, according to the student’s writ-
ten release, as described in paragraph 
(4); 
‘‘(B) the school personnel shall report to 
the concussion management team— 
‘‘(i) that the student may have sus-
tained a concussion; and 
‘‘(ii) all available information with re-
spect to the student’s injury; and 
‘‘(C) the concussion management team 
shall confirm and report to the parents of the 
student— 
‘‘(i) the type of injury, and the date 
and time of the injury, suffered by the stu-
dent; and 
‘‘(ii) any actions that have been taken 
to treat the student. 
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