Bill Text: TX HB204 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the safety of a referee, judge, or other official at a public school extracurricular activity and prohibiting certain conduct by a spectator related to those officials' safety.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Filed [HB204 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB204-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 204 | |
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| relating to the safety of a referee, judge, or other official at a | ||
| public school extracurricular activity and prohibiting certain | ||
| conduct by a spectator related to those officials' safety. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 33.081, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (f-1) and amending Subsection (g) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (f-1) A spectator of a University Interscholastic League | ||
| competition, including a parent or guardian of a student | ||
| participant, shall be prohibited from attending any future | ||
| extracurricular activity sponsored or sanctioned by the school | ||
| district or the University Interscholastic League if the spectator | ||
| engages in conduct that intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly | ||
| causes bodily injury to a person serving as referee, judge, or other | ||
| official of an extracurricular activity in retaliation for or as a | ||
| result of the person's actions taken in performing the duties of a | ||
| referee, judge, or other official of the extracurricular activity. | ||
| (g) An appeal to the commissioner is not a contested case | ||
| under Chapter 2001, Government Code, if the issues presented relate | ||
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| eligibility based on conduct described by Subsection (e-1), or a | ||
| spectator's eligibility to attend an extracurricular activity | ||
| under Subsection (f-1). The commissioner may delegate the matter | ||
| for decision to a person the commissioner designates. The decision | ||
| of the commissioner or the commissioner's designee in a matter | ||
| governed by this subsection may not be appealed except on the | ||
| grounds that the decision is arbitrary or capricious. Evidence may | ||
| not be introduced on appeal other than the record of the evidence | ||
| before the commissioner. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.098 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.098. SAFETY OF OFFICIAL. A school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school that holds an extracurricular | ||
| activity or a University Interscholastic League competition on | ||
| district or school property shall provide a peace officer, school | ||
| resource officer, or security personnel to ensure the safety of a | ||
| referee, judge, or other official of the activity or competition | ||
| until the official departs district or school property if: | ||
| (1) a participant or spectator of the activity or | ||
| competition engages in, attempts to engage in, or threatens violent | ||
| conduct against the official or otherwise disrupts the duties or | ||
| free movement of the official; or | ||
| (2) the district or school reasonably suspects that an | ||
| incident described by Subdivision (1) may occur at the activity or | ||
| competition. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2022-2023 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
