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Rowan Stringer died in 2013 from second impact syndrome after multiple concussions.

A bill dealing with concussions, named for a 17-year-old girl who died from rugby injuries, has passed in the legislature with rare all-party support.

The bill called Rowan's Law calls for the government to set guidelines to ensure children are taken out of a game if a concussion is suspected.

The legislation establishes a committee to implement the recommendations that came out of the coroner's inquest into Rowan Stringer's death within a year.

Rowan died in 2013 from second impact syndrome after multiple concussions, and during the coroner's inquest, her family learned that before she died she had looked up concussion on Google.

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