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Originally Posted by Dakota
I agree with most of your perspective. I was just explaining the MN law, which in reality merely set into law what was essentially the policy of the MSHSL already. The legislature just expanded it to non-school entities regardless of what the sanctioning body may have in their policies and rules.
Personally, I thought the legislature was doing what they do best: meddling into things they know nothing about with "feel good" laws so that can claim to be "taking action."
So, now I have to produce an up-to-date certificate showing that I attended concussion protocol training in order to register as an umpire with ASA.
So far (several years into this) no one has been sued and I have asked no one to leave a game due to concussion symptoms.
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I'm not worried about sitting a player. I'm more concerned with not sitting a player because the one/two adults there (umpires) that have the least amount of available time to observe a particular player did not see enough to make a determination of a player who is later determined to have had a problem.
I agree, the politicians are sticking their nose where it doesn't belong just so they can fluff up a resume for the next election.