N.M. Admin. Code § 7.30.14.8

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 20, October 22, 2024

Section 7.30.14.8 - REQUIREMENTS

A. All teams, clubs or other entities providing youth athletic activity must provide brain injury educational materials to each coach and administrator of the youth sports organization on an annual basis.

(1) All youth athletic activity teams, clubs, and other similar entities must require their coaches to review the brain injury education materials at least once per year, pass a post-test, and print the certificate of completion to be included in their records before the coach supervises a youth athlete in a youth athletic activity of the entity.

(2) Both youth athletes and their parents or guardians shall sign a concussion training completion form confirming they have taken a center for disease control and prevention (CDC) approved concussion training, unless the athlete is under 11 years of age, in which case only the parent or guardian shall sign the concussion training completion form.

(3) Any deviation from the use of a centers for disease control and prevention (CDC)-produced or approved materials must be approved by the New Mexico department of health.

B. All teams, clubs or other similar entities providing one or more youth athletic activities must provide the brain injury educational materials to each youth participant on an annual basis. The training, which is through the use of the brain injury educational materials, can be completed online or via printed copy of the online training.

C. Each team coach must collect all signature forms or certificates of completion from youth athletes and parents or guardians upon completion of the brain injury education and submit them to the league president before practice sessions can begin. Each league president must maintain files for each year, documenting that the training is complete for coaches, youth athletes, and parents or guardians.

D. A youth athlete who is suspected by a coach, a league official, or a youth athlete of sustaining a brain injury in a youth athletic activity shall immediately be removed from the youth athletic activity and shall remain out of play until a licensed health care professional provides the youth athlete a written clearance to return to the youth athletic activity. When a youth athlete suffers a suspected brain injury, the athletic activity team, club, or other similar entity the youth sports organization must:

(1) On the date and time of the suspected brain injury, notify the youth athlete's parent or guardian of the youth athlete with the suspected brain injury that the youth athlete has a suspected brain injury and the symptoms observed; and

(2) Within 72-hours of a suspected brain injury, notify the youth athlete's parent or guardian of any treatment provided in response to the suspected brain injury.

E. 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.

F. A coach may allow a youth athlete, who has been prohibited from participation in a youth athletic activity, to participate in a youth athletic activity no sooner than 240 hours or 10 days from the time at which the youth athlete received a brain injury and may only do so after the youth athlete meets the following two criteria:

(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.

N.M. Admin. Code § 7.30.14.8

Adopted by New Mexico Register, Volume XXX, Issue 19, October 15, 2019, eff. 10/15/2019