Iowa-2015-HF2016-Introduced
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:
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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.
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