Bill Text: TX HB1080 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility for participation in University Interscholastic League activities of certain public school students who receive outpatient mental health services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective immediately [HB1080 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1080-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility for participation in University Interscholastic League activities of certain public school students who receive outpatient mental health services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective immediately [HB1080 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1080-Comm_Sub.html
By: Patterson, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) | H.B. No. 1080 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2021; | ||
May 6, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 14, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 14, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the eligibility for participation in University | ||
Interscholastic League activities of certain public school | ||
students who receive outpatient mental health services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 33.0832 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.0832. PARTICIPATION IN UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC | ||
LEAGUE ACTIVITIES BY STUDENTS RECEIVING OUTPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH | ||
SERVICES. (a) This section applies to a student who: | ||
(1) receives outpatient mental health services from a | ||
mental health facility, as defined by Section 571.003, Health and | ||
Safety Code; and | ||
(2) is enrolled in a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school or otherwise receives public | ||
education services from a district or school. | ||
(b) The University Interscholastic League shall ensure that | ||
league rules do not exclude from eligibility for participation in a | ||
league activity a student to whom this section applies based solely | ||
on the criteria described in Subsection (a)(1). | ||
(c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
not adopt or enforce policies that restrict participation in | ||
University Interscholastic League activities by a student to whom | ||
this section applies based solely on: | ||
(1) the criteria described in Subsection (a)(1); or | ||
(2) the student's absence during instructional time | ||
while receiving outpatient mental health services as described by | ||
Subsection (a)(1). | ||
(d) This section does not exempt a student to whom this | ||
section applies from any eligibility requirement for participation | ||
in University Interscholastic League activities other than an | ||
eligibility requirement based solely on the criteria described in | ||
Subsection (a)(1). | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act: | ||
(1) the University Interscholastic League shall | ||
propose or amend rules as necessary to comply with Section 33.0832, | ||
Education Code, as added by this Act; and | ||
(2) a school district or open-enrollment charter | ||
school shall propose or amend policies as necessary to comply with | ||
Section 33.0832, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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