2023 Delaware Code › Title 14 - Education › Chapter 3. DELAWARE INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION › § 303. Regulations, policies, and procedures.

§ 303. Regulations, policies, and procedures.
(a) The Board shall work in consultation and cooperation with the Department in the development of regulations relating to member school interscholastic athletics. The Board and the Department may develop necessary policies and procedures to implement this chapter.
(b) (1) The Board, in consultation and cooperation with the Department, shall develop regulations relating to secondary and middle school interscholastic athletics. The regulations must include at least all of the following:
a. Regulation of interscholastic athletic programs of each public school at the middle and high school levels.
b. Regulation of the interscholastic athletic program of each nonpublic school that elects to become a member school.
c. The manner in which a nonpublic school may elect to become a member school.
d. Eligibility requirements for a student to participate in interscholastic athletics.
e. Requirements for a student who participates in interscholastic athletics and nonschool competitions.
f. Requirements for a coach or sports official in interscholastic sports.
g. Sanctioning of school team competitions.
h. Other matters affecting interscholastic athletics.
(2) The Board may not approve a regulation that denies a student the right to simultaneously try out for, practice with, or participate in a game on a team similar to the school team on which that student is a member. The Board may, however, authorize dual membership and participation on a similar team only upon written consent by the student's parent, custodian, or guardian. The written consent must clearly state the authority to participate on a particularly specified team of a designated organization or institution.
(c) The Board shall adopt regulations as to the sports over which the Association has jurisdiction.
(d) The Board shall adopt regulations applicable to a member school regarding the appropriate recognition and management of a student athlete exhibiting signs or symptoms consistent with a concussion. The regulations must require at least all of the following:
(1) Each student athlete and the athlete's parent or guardian shall annually sign and return a concussion information sheet, that the Board designs, prior to the athlete initiating practice or competition.
(2) Each coach shall complete concussion training consistent with a timetable and curriculum that the Board establishes by regulation.
(3) A student athlete must be promptly removed from play if the athlete is suspected of sustaining a concussion or exhibits signs or symptoms of concussion until completion of assessment by a qualified health-care provider or medical clearance from a qualified health-care provider.
(4) Written clearance for return to play after a concussion must be from a health-care provider.
(e) The Board shall adopt regulations applicable to a member school regarding student athletes and awareness, recognition, and management of sudden cardiac arrest. The Board shall, through either regulation or policy adopted under regulation, do at least all of the following:
(1) Develop and make publicly available a sudden cardiac arrest information sheet that includes information regarding the nature and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest.
(2) Prior to participating in practice or competition, require each student athlete and the athlete's parent or guardian sign and return a sudden cardiac arrest information sheet that the Board designs.
(3) Require each student athlete to complete a heart history questionnaire as part of the preparticipation physical examination.
(4) Hold a current cardiopulmonary resuscitation (“CPR”) certification for each school-appointed head coach. The certification must include training on the use of an automated external defibrillator.
(5) Present to each coach and official sudden cardiac arrest awareness information.
73 Del. Laws, c. 374, §  3;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  78 Del. Laws, c. 192, §  1;  79 Del. Laws, c. 419, §  1;  83 Del. Laws, c. 518, § 3;  84 Del. Laws, c. 217, § 2;