Manual addresses policy for students who suffer concussions and/or return to play policies.

A. A coach shall not allow a youth athlete to participate in a youth athletic activity on the same day that the youth athlete:

• (1) exhibits signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a brain injury after a coach, a league official or a youth athlete reports, observes or suspects that a youth athlete exhibiting these signs, symptoms or behaviors has sustained a brain injury; or
• (2) has been diagnosed with a brain injury.

B. A coach may allow a youth athlete who has been prohibited from participating in a youth athletic activity pursuant to Subsection A of this section to participate in a youth athletic activity no sooner than two hundred forty hours from the hour in which the youth athlete received a brain injury and only after the youth athlete:

• (1) no longer exhibits any sign, symptom or behavior consistent with a brain injury; and
• (2) receives a written medical release from a licensed health care professional.

A. A coach shall not allow a youth athlete to participate in a youth athletic activity on the same day that the youth athlete:

• (1) exhibits signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a brain injury after a coach, a league official or a youth athlete reports, observes or suspects that a youth athlete exhibiting these signs, symptoms or behaviors has sustained a brain injury; or
• (2) has been diagnosed with a brain injury.

B. A coach may allow a youth athlete who has been prohibited from participating in a youth athletic activity pursuant to Subsection A of this section to participate in a youth athletic activity no sooner than two hundred forty hours from the hour in which the youth athlete received a brain injury and only after the youth athlete:

• (1) no longer exhibits any sign, symptom or behavior consistent with a brain injury; and
• (2) receives a written medical release from a licensed health care professional.