Bill Text: TX HB28 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of a student to participate in extracurricular activities or competitions after transferring or moving from one public school to another.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-01 - Referred to Public Education [HB28 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB28-Introduced.html
By: Hochberg | H.B. No. 28 |
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relating to the eligibility of a student to participate in | ||
extracurricular activities or competitions after transferring or | ||
moving from one public school to another. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 33.088 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.088. ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN TRANSFER STUDENTS. (a) | ||
Except as provided by Subsection (b), a student who transfers to a | ||
school or moves into the attendance zone of a school for the purpose | ||
of participating in a specific extracurricular activity or a | ||
specific University Interscholastic League competition offered at | ||
that school is not ineligible to participate in the activity or | ||
competition if: | ||
(1) the activity or competition is not offered at the | ||
school from which the student transferred or moved; and | ||
(2) the student is otherwise eligible to participate | ||
in the activity or competition. | ||
(b) The University Interscholastic League may adopt rules | ||
providing that a student who two or more times during a school year | ||
transfers to a school or moves into the attendance zone of a school | ||
for the purpose of participating in a specific league competition | ||
offered at that school is ineligible to participate in the | ||
competition. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
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 October 1, 2011. |