Bill Text: TX HB1374 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to equal opportunity for access by home-schooled students to University Interscholastic League sponsored activities; authorizing a fee.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 15-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-09 - Left pending in committee [HB1374 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1374-Introduced.html
  83R6978 KKA-D
 
  By: Dutton H.B. No. 1374
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to equal opportunity for access by home-schooled students
  to University Interscholastic League sponsored activities;
  authorizing a fee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 33.0833 to read as follows:
         Sec. 33.0833.  EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS
  TO PARTICIPATE IN UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE ACTIVITIES.
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a public school that
  participates in an activity sponsored by the University
  Interscholastic League shall provide a home-schooled student who
  resides in the school's attendance area with the opportunity to
  participate in the activity on behalf of the school in the same
  manner that the school provides the opportunity to participate to
  students enrolled in the school.
         (b)  A home-schooled student who seeks to participate or who
  participates in a league activity on behalf of a school is subject
  to the relevant policies that apply to students enrolled in the
  school, including policies regarding registration, age
  eligibility, fees, insurance, transportation, physical condition,
  qualifications, responsibilities, event schedules, standards of
  behavior, and performance.
         (c)  As a condition of participation by a home-schooled
  student in a league activity under this section, the individual who
  primarily provides instruction to the student must submit a written
  verification to the school indicating whether the student is:
               (1)  receiving a passing grade in each course or
  subject taught; and
               (2)  maintaining satisfactory progress towards
  academic advancement or promotion.
         (d)  A home-schooled student is not authorized by this
  section to participate in a league activity during the remainder of
  any school year during which the student was previously enrolled in
  a public school.
         (e)  The University Interscholastic League may not prohibit
  a home-schooled student from participating in league activities in
  the manner authorized by this section.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
  school year.
         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, 2013.
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