{"id":643623,"date":"2010-01-25T18:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T23:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70397"},"modified":"2010-01-25T19:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T00:05:34","slug":"bill-intends-to-protect-student-athletes-from-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/643623","title":{"rendered":"Bill Intends To Protect Student Athletes From Concussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic lawmakers are proposing a bill to help protect student-athletes from the effects of brain concussions. The tagline for the legislation is: &#8220;When in doubt, sit it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney of New Haven and Sen. Thomas Gaffey of Meriden will talk about the bill at a news conference Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.&nbsp; Joining them will be coaches, doctors, parents, and representatives from the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>If the bill passes, Connecticut would become the third state &#8211; along with Washington and Oregon &#8211; to adopt a &#8220;comprehensive law protecting student-athletes from the effects of concussions,&#8221; a spokesman for Senate Democrats said.<\/p>\n<p>        Details were not announced Monday, but sources said the bill would require student athletes who suffer a suspected concussion to wait at least a day to return to action. It also would say that&nbsp;coaches must&nbsp;receive training about concussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic lawmakers are proposing a bill to help protect student-athletes from the effects of brain concussions. The tagline for the legislation is: &#8220;When in doubt, sit it out.&#8221; State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney of New Haven and Sen. Thomas Gaffey of Meriden will talk about the bill at a news conference Tuesday at 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Hr1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}