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Senate Majority Policy Committee Plans Hearing
on Physical Exams for Students
PA Secretary of
Health, School District CEO to Testify
HARRISBURG -- The
Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee, chaired by Senator Joe Conti
(R-10), will hold a public hearing on Tuesday,
January 13 at 1 p.m. to
discuss Senate Bill 505, a measure sponsored by Conti that would expand the
state’s requirements for giving physical examinations to Pennsylvania’s school
students. The hearing will take place in the Board
Room, Administrative Building, School District of Philadelphia, 2120 Winter
Street, Philadelphia.
State law currently requires students to
have physical examinations upon entering school, as well as in the 6th and 11th
grades. Conti’s legislation would amend the law to remove the 6th grade
examination and replace it with examinations in the 4th and 8th grades. The
bill would also require students to be examined for cardiovascular, abdominal,
neurological, ear-nose-throat, dental and orthopedic health problems.
Scheduled to testify at the hearing is
Toni Pellegrini of Bucks County, whose son, Louis T. Savino, III, died while
playing soccer as the result of an undetected congenital heart condition. With
Pellegrini will be Louis’ aunt, Lorraine Sikora, who along with Pellegrini and
Louis’ father Louis T. Savino, Jr., started the Louis T. Savino, III Foundation
to increase awareness about the incidence of sudden cardiac death in high school
athletes.
Also scheduled to testify are Dr. Calvin
B. Johnson, Secretary of the PA Department of Health; Paul Vallas, CEO, School
District of Philadelphia, and physicians affiliated with Drexel University
College of Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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