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SB2398 • 2025

Relating to certain policies and procedures related to concussions or other brain injuries sustained by public school students.

Relating to certain policies and procedures related to concussions or other brain injuries sustained by public school students.

Education
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Campbell | Creighton
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective immediately
Effective date
Not listed

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Relating to certain policies and procedures related to concussions or other brain injuries sustained by public school students.

Relating to certain policies and procedures related to concussions or other brain injuries sustained by public school students.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to certain policies and procedures related to concussions or other brain injuries sustained by public school students.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective immediately

  3. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  4. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  5. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  6. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  7. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    House passage reported

  8. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar

  9. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  10. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading

  11. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal

  12. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  13. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  14. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3832

  15. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  16. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal

  17. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  18. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

  19. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  20. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  21. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  22. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

  23. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  24. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  25. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  26. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  27. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  28. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  29. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  30. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    No action taken in committee

  31. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  32. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Public Education

  33. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  34. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  35. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  36. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  37. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  38. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  39. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  40. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  41. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  42. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  43. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  44. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Not again placed on intent calendar

  45. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  46. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  47. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  48. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  49. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  50. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  51. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  52. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  53. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  54. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  55. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  56. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  57. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Education K-16

  58. 2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  59. 2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to certain policies and procedures related to concussions or other brain injuries sustained by public school students.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) SB 2398 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 2398

AN ACT

relating to certain policies and procedures related to concussions

or other brain injuries sustained by public school students.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is

amended by adding Section 38.0051 to read as follows:

Sec.

38.0051.

ACADEMIC ACCOMMODATIONS FOR STUDENT WITH

CONCUSSION OR OTHER BRAIN INJURY. (a) The agency shall develop a

list of nonmedical academic accommodations a school district may

offer to a student diagnosed with a concussion or other brain

injury.

(b) The agency shall:

(1)

develop a form for use by school districts

describing the accommodations a district may offer under this

section; and

(2)

make the form developed under Subdivision (1)

available on the agency's Internet website for use by school

districts, district educators or administrators, students, and

parents or guardians.

(c)

A school district that provides accommodations under

this section must make the form developed under Subsection (b)

available to:

(1)

a district employee as soon as practicable after

receiving:

(A)

notice that a student enrolled in the

district has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain

injury; or

(B) a request from the employee; and

(2)

a student enrolled in the district or the student's

parent or guardian as soon as practicable after receiving:

(A)

notice that the student has been diagnosed

with a concussion or other brain injury; or

(B)

a request from the student or parent or

guardian.

(d)

This section may not be construed to require a school

district to provide any accommodations under this section.

SECTION 2. Chapter 38, Education Code, is amended by adding

Subchapter D-1 to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER D-1.

TREATMENT OF CONCUSSIONS AFFECTING STUDENTS OTHER

THAN STUDENT ATHLETES

Sec.

38.171.

DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "concussion"

has the meaning assigned by Section 38.151.

Sec.

38.172.

APPLICABILITY. This subchapter does not apply

to a concussion believed to have been sustained by a student while

participating in an interscholastic athletic activity described by

Section 38.152.

Sec.

38.173.

CONCUSSION RESPONSE POLICY. (a)

A school

district shall adopt and implement a policy regarding how to

respond to a concussion believed to have been sustained by a student

while on school property or participating in a school-sponsored or

school-related activity on or off school property.

(b)

The policy adopted under Subsection (a) must provide

for:

(1)

the immediate removal of a student from a

school-sponsored or school-related activity if a school district

employee or volunteer believes the student might have sustained a

concussion;

(2)

notice to the student's parent or guardian or

another person with legal authority to make medical decisions for

the student of the student's suspected concussion and removal under

Subdivision (1); and

(3)

the student's return to a school-sponsored or

school-related activity only after the requirements under Section

38.157(a) have been satisfied.

SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026

school year.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2398 passed the Senate on

May 1, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2398 passed the House on

May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 6, two

present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor