BILL NUMBER: AB 1647	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 28, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 28, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 10, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 23, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Hayashi and Hill
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Ammiano, Bass, Beall, 
Buchanan,  Coto, Davis, Fletcher, Furutani, Galgiani,
Huffman, Lieu, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ruskin, Saldana, Smyth, and Solorio)

   (Coauthor: Senator Strickland)

                        JANUARY 13, 2010

   An act to add Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 18898) to
Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code,   and to add
Section 33355 to the Education Code, relating to  
relating to  athletics.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1647, as amended, Hayashi. Athletics. 
   (1) Existing 
    Existing  law provides for the regulation of various
professions and vocations, including those of an athlete agent.
   This bill would make it unlawful for any person to hold himself or
herself out as  an   a certified  athletic
trainer unless he or she has been certified by the Board of
Certification, Inc., and has either graduated from a college or
university, after completing an accredited athletic training
education program, as specified, or completed requirements for
certification by the Board of Certification, Inc., prior to January
1, 2004.  The bill would prohibit an athletic trainer from
engaging in athletic training activities unless pursuant to protocols
developed by a physician and surgeon for that athletic trainer.
 The bill would make it an unfair business practice to
violate these provisions. 
   (2) Existing law grants the State Department of Education certain
authority over interscholastic athletics, including the authority to
state that the policies of school districts, of associations or
consortia of school districts, and of the California Interscholastic
Federation, concerning interscholastic athletics, are in compliance
with both state and federal law.  
   This bill would require the department to adopt a
heat-acclimatization program established by the National Athletic
Trainers' Association or other similarly recognized organization, and
to post this program on its Internet Web site. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 18898) is added to
Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 2.7.  ATHLETIC TRAINERS


   18898.  (a) No person shall hold himself or herself out to be
 an   a certified  athletic trainer unless
he or she meets the following requirements:
   (1) He or she has done either of the following:
   (A) Graduated from a college or university after completing an
athletic training education program accredited by the Commission on
Accreditation of Athletic Training Education, or its predecessors or
successors.
   (B) Completed requirements for certification by the Board of
Certification, Inc., prior to January 1, 2004.
   (2) He or she has been certified by the Board of Certification,
Inc. 
   (b) An athletic trainer shall engage in athletic training
activities only pursuant to protocols developed for that athletic
trainer by a physician and surgeon licensed by the Medical Board of
California or an osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed by the
Osteopathic Medical Board of California.  
   (c) 
    (b)  It is an unfair business practice within the
meaning of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2 of
Division 7 for any person to use the title of  "athletic
trainer" or  "certified athletic trainer" or any other term,
such as "licensed," "registered," or "ATC," that implies or suggests
that the person is certified as an athletic trainer, if the person
does not meet the requirements of subdivision (a)  and
engages in athletic trainer activities pursuant to subdivision (b)
 . 
  SEC. 2.    Section 33355 is added to the Education
Code, to read:
   33355.  The department shall adopt a heat-acclimatization program
established by the National Athletic Trainers' Association or other
similarly recognized organization and shall post this program on its
Internet Web site.