GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2025

SESSION LAW 2025-49

HOUSE BILL 928

AN ACT to allow physical therapists to evaluate student athlete head injuries during athletic activities.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑407.57(b)(2) reads as rewritten:

"(2)      If a student participating in an interscholastic athletic activity exhibits signs or symptoms consistent with a concussion, the student shall be removed from the activity at that time and shall not be allowed to return to play or practice that day. The student shall not return to play or practice on a subsequent day until the student is evaluated by and receives written clearance for such participation from one of the following:

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f. A physical therapist, licensed under Article 18E of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23^rd day of June, 2025.

                                                                    s/  Rachel Hunt

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Donna McDowell White

                                                                         Presiding Officer of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Josh Stein

                                                                         Governor

Approved 12:38 p.m. this 2^nd day of July, 2025