Bill Text: TX HB3709 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reducing costs in public school extracurricular activities.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB3709 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3709-Introduced.html
| By: Hochberg | H.B. No. 3709 | |
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| relating to reducing costs in public school extracurricular | ||
| 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 33.090 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.090. COST REDUCTIONS IN EXTRACURRICULAR | ||
| ACTIVITIES. (a) The University Interscholastic League shall | ||
| establish rules and policies to achieve annual savings of at least | ||
| 20 percent in costs expended by school districts for University | ||
| Interscholastic League athletic programs. The University | ||
| Interscholastic League shall implement these rules and policies no | ||
| later than the start of the 2012-2013 school year and shall continue | ||
| the rules and policies throughout at least the 2016-2017 school | ||
| year. The rules and policies proposed under this section shall be | ||
| approved by the commissioner prior to implementation by the | ||
| University Interscholastic League. | ||
| (b) In approving the rules and policies proposed by the | ||
| University Interscholastic League under this section, the | ||
| commissioner shall ensure that the proposed rules and policies will | ||
| achieve the annual cost savings under Subsection (a) and will | ||
| distribute cost savings proportionally under Subsection (d). | ||
| (c) To achieve the annual savings required in Subsection | ||
| (a), University Interscholastic League may consider the following | ||
| cost saving measures including, but not limited to: | ||
| (1) setting limits on the number of coaches and | ||
| support staff for one or more sports; | ||
| (2) requiring all coaches who are full-time employees | ||
| of the school district to teach a minimum of one course each | ||
| semester from the required curriculum under Section 28.002; | ||
| (3) reducing the number of games played per season; | ||
| (4) reducing the number of tournaments played per | ||
| season; | ||
| (5) limiting the number of games and tournaments on | ||
| weekdays; | ||
| (6) requiring varsity and sub-varsity participants to | ||
| travel together where schedules permit to reduce school district | ||
| travel costs; | ||
| (7) reducing the size of officiating crews; | ||
| (8) requiring coaches to coach more than one sport; | ||
| (9) allowing coaches to be employed by the school | ||
| district on a part-time or voluntary basis; or | ||
| (10) any other cost saving measure approved by the | ||
| commissioner. | ||
| (d) To the extent practicable, the rules and policies | ||
| implemented under this section shall distribute cost savings | ||
| proportionally to the cost of each sport. | ||
| (e) The rules and policies implemented under this section | ||
| shall not be changed before 2016-2017 unless replaced with similar | ||
| cost saving measures approved by the commissioner. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
