HB402 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Jack Williams
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2017
Title: Youth sports, unpaid and volunteer youth athletics assoc. personnel to complete a youth injury mitigation course annually
Description: Under existing law, there is no provision for child and youth athletics associations of the state, or a political subdivision of the state, that sponsors or conducts sports training or activities, to require unpaid or volunteer coaches and trainers affiliated with the organization to complete a course providing coaches and trainers with information regarding measures that can be taken to reduce the probability that a child or youth athlete will be seriously injured while engaging in youth sports activities.
This bill would require that any unpaid or volunteer coach or trainer affiliated with a youth athletics association of the state or its political subdivision that sponsors or conducts any high risk youth athletics activity where there is a likelihood that a child or youth may sustain a serious injury be required to take a course providing information to reduce those risks.
Subjects: Youth Sports

Indefinitely Postponed

State Government first Substitute Offered

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government