Bill Text: IA HF2264 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled

Iowa House Bill 2264 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: A bill for an act concerning varsity athletics eligibility of students in open enrollment subjected to harassment or bullying and including effective date provisions. Effective 4-7-16.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-04-07 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 625. [HF2264 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF2264-Enrolled.html

House File 2264 - Enrolled




                              HOUSE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                              (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2101)
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                                   A BILL FOR
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                                        House File 2264

                             AN ACT
 CONCERNING VARSITY ATHLETICS ELIGIBILITY OF STUDENTS IN OPEN
    ENROLLMENT SUBJECTED TO HARASSMENT OR BULLYING AND INCLUDING
    EFFECTIVE DATE PROVISIONS.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 282.18, subsection 11, Code 2016, is
 amended to read as follows:
    11.  A pupil who participates in open enrollment for purposes
 of attending a grade in grades nine through twelve in a school
 district other than the district of residence is ineligible to
 participate in varsity interscholastic athletic contests and
 athletic competitions during the pupil's first ninety school
 days of enrollment in the district except that the pupil may
 participate immediately in a varsity interscholastic sport if
 the pupil is entering grade nine for the first time and did
 not participate in an interscholastic athletic competition for
 another school or school district during the summer immediately
 following eighth grade, if the district of residence and the
 other school district jointly participate in the sport, if the
 sport in which the pupil wishes to participate is not offered
 in the district of residence, if the pupil chooses to use open
 enrollment to attend school in another school district because
 the district in which the student previously attended school
 was dissolved and merged with one or more contiguous school
 districts under section 256.11, subsection 12, if the pupil
 participates in open enrollment because the pupil's district
 of residence has entered into a whole grade sharing agreement
 with another district for the pupil's grade, or if the parent
 or guardian of the pupil participating in open enrollment is
 an active member of the armed forces and resides in permanent
 housing on government property provided by a branch of the
 armed services, or if the district of residence determines
 that the pupil was previously subject to a founded incident
 of harassment or bullying as defined in section 280.28 while
 attending school in the district of residence. A pupil who
 has paid tuition and attended school, or has attended school
 pursuant to a mutual agreement between the two districts,
 in a district other than the pupil's district of residence
 for at least one school year is also eligible to participate
 immediately in interscholastic athletic contests and athletic
 competitions under this section, but only as a member of a team
 from the district that pupil had attended. For purposes of
 this subsection, "school days of enrollment" does not include
 enrollment in summer school. For purposes of this subsection,
 "varsity" means the same as defined in section 256.46.
    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.


                                                             
                               LINDA UPMEYER
                               Speaker of the House


                                                             
                               PAM JOCHUM
                               President of the Senate
    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
 is known as House File 2264, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.


                                                             
                               CARMINE BOAL
                               Chief Clerk of the House
 Approved                , 2016


                                                             
                               TERRY E. BRANSTAD
                               Governor

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