Bill Text: TX HB167 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the participation of certain students in University Interscholastic League sponsored activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-13 - Referred to Public Education [HB167 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB167-Introduced.html
86R1065 LHC-D | ||
By: Canales | H.B. No. 167 |
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relating to the participation of certain students in University | ||
Interscholastic League sponsored activities. | ||
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. ACCESS TO UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE | ||
SPONSORED ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS UNDER SUPERVISION OF TEXAS | ||
JUVENILE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. (a) The University Interscholastic | ||
League may provide students receiving educational services under | ||
the supervision of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department with the | ||
opportunity to participate in activities sponsored by the league in | ||
the same manner that the league provides the opportunity to | ||
participate to students enrolled in public schools. Participation | ||
of a public school in an activity in which students receiving | ||
educational services under the supervision of the department | ||
participate is optional. | ||
(b) Before providing students described by Subsection (a) | ||
with the opportunity to participate in activities described by that | ||
subsection, the University Interscholastic League must: | ||
(1) enter into a memorandum of understanding with the | ||
Texas Juvenile Justice Department regarding the policies | ||
governing: | ||
(A) the conditions of eligibility for students | ||
under the supervision of the department in activities sponsored by | ||
the league, including the: | ||
(i) ages of students eligible to | ||
participate; | ||
(ii) academic performance requirements for | ||
students; and | ||
(iii) standards of behavior for students; | ||
(B) the appropriate league in which students | ||
under the supervision of the department will participate; and | ||
(C) the duties of the department regarding other | ||
policies of the league, including fees, insurance, and | ||
transportation; and | ||
(2) adopt rules and administrative guidelines to | ||
implement this section, including procedures allowing for the | ||
optional participation of public schools in the activities provided | ||
to students under the supervision of the department under this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2019. |