California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law legislation that requires youth athletic coaches to undergo concussion training, amending the state’s youth-concussion law passed in 2011.
As originally passed, the law contained all three provisions of the NFL’s model concussion legislation: Parents or guardians were required to sign concussion-information forms before their children could participate in school sports; any student-athlete suspected of a concussion had to be immediately removed from play; and such student-athletes couldn’t return to play until cleared by a licensed medical professional.
Like a law recently passed in New Hampshire, California’s original measure did