Bill Text: IA HF2016 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act to allow a student to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity sponsored or administered by a statewide organization in an adjoining state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-13 - Subcommittee, Stanerson, Cohoon, and T. Moore. H.J. 75. [HF2016 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-HF2016-Introduced.html
House File 2016 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY WILLS A BILL FOR 1 An Act to allow a student to participate in an interscholastic 2 athletic activity sponsored or administered by a statewide 3 organization in an adjoining state. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 5325YH (2) 86 kh/rj PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 280.13, Code 2016, is amended to read as 1 2 follows: 1 3 280.13 Requirements for interscholastic athletic contests and 1 4 competitions == participation out=of=state. 1 5 1. A public school shall not participate in or allow 1 6 students representing a public school to participate in any 1 7 extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition 1 8 which is sponsored or administered by an organization as 1 9 defined in this section, unless the organization is registered 1 10 with the department of education, files financial statements 1 11 with the department in the form and at the intervals prescribed 1 12 by the director of the department of education, and is in 1 13 compliance with rules which the state board of education adopts 1 14 for the proper administration, supervision, operation, adoption 1 15 of eligibility requirements, and scheduling of extracurricular 1 16 interscholastic athletic contests and competitions and the 1 17 organizations. 1 18 2. Notwithstanding subsection 1, if the organizations 1 19 that meet the requirements of subsection 1 do not sponsor 1 20 or administer an interscholastic athletic activity in this 1 21 state, a student may participate in such an interscholastic 1 22 athletic activity sponsored or administered by a comparable 1 23 statewide organization operating in an adjoining state if the 1 24 school district or accredited nonpublic school in which the 1 25 student is enrolled enters into a written agreement with the 1 26 board of directors of the school district or the authorities 1 27 in charge of an accredited nonpublic school in the adjoining 1 28 state to provide for the eligibility of the student in the 1 29 interscholastic athletic activity. A boundary of the school 1 30 district or accredited nonpublic school in which the student 1 31 is enrolled must be contiguous to the boundary of the school 1 32 district in the adjoining state that is party to the written 1 33 agreement. For purposes of this subsection, the boundaries of 1 34 the school district in which an accredited nonpublic school is 1 35 located shall be considered the boundaries of the accredited 2 1 nonpublic school. The written agreement shall be for a period 2 2 of not less than one school year and may be renewed annually or 2 3 until an organization in this state sponsors or administers the 2 4 interscholastic athletic activity in this state. The student 2 5 participating in an interscholastic athletic activity under 2 6 this subsection must be enrolled and in good standing in a 2 7 school district or an accredited nonpublic school in this state 2 8 and must meet the eligibility requirements adopted by rule by 2 9 the state board of education under section 256.46 which are 2 10 not in conflict with this subsection. A copy of the written 2 11 agreement shall be filed with the appropriate organizations in 2 12 this state and in the adjoining state in a timely manner. 2 13 3. For the purposes of this section "organization" means 2 14 a corporation, association, or organization which has as one 2 15 of its primary purposes the sponsoring or administration 2 16 of extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or 2 17 competitions, but does not include an agency of this state, 2 18 a public or private school or school board, or an athletic 2 19 conference or other association whose interscholastic contests 2 20 or competitions do not include more than twenty=four schools. 2 21 EXPLANATION 2 22 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 2 23 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 2 24 This bill allows a student to participate in an 2 25 interscholastic athletic activity sponsored or administered by 2 26 a comparable statewide high school athletic organization in an 2 27 adjoining state if the high school athletic organizations in 2 28 this state do not sponsor or administer the activity. 2 29 To participate in an athletic activity in another state, 2 30 the school district or accredited nonpublic school in which 2 31 the student is enrolled must enter into a written agreement 2 32 with the board of directors of the school district or the 2 33 authorities in charge of an accredited nonpublic school in 2 34 the adjoining state to provide for the eligibility of the 2 35 student in the interscholastic athletic activity. The student 3 1 must be enrolled and in good standing in a school district or 3 2 an accredited nonpublic school and meet the state board of 3 3 education's eligibility requirements that are not in conflict 3 4 with the provisions of the bill. 3 5 The boundary of the school district or accredited nonpublic 3 6 school in which the student is enrolled must be contiguous to 3 7 the boundary of the school district in the adjoining state 3 8 that is party to the written agreement. The boundaries of the 3 9 school district in which an accredited nonpublic school is 3 10 located shall be considered the boundaries of the accredited 3 11 nonpublic school. 3 12 The term of the written agreement is one school year and it 3 13 may be renewed annually or until an Iowa high school athletic 3 14 organization sponsors or administers the activity. A copy 3 15 of the written agreement must be filed with the appropriate 3 16 high school athletic organizations in this state and in the 3 17 adjoining state in a timely manner. LSB 5325YH (2) 86 kh/rj
