Bill Text: TX HB3737 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to broadcasting of athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB3737 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3737-Introduced.html
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By: Martinez | H.B. No. 3737 |
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relating to broadcasting of athletic competitions sponsored or | ||
sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League. | ||
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. BROADCASTING OF ATHLETIC COMPETITIONS. (a) | ||
In this section, "broadcasting" means transmitting sounds and | ||
images through television or over the Internet. | ||
(b) The University Interscholastic League shall adopt rules | ||
and policies that encourage and permit the broadcasting of each | ||
athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the league that | ||
occurs more than 100 miles away from the campus of a school | ||
participating in the event, regardless of the day of the week on | ||
which the competition occurs. | ||
(c) The University Interscholastic League may not adopt a | ||
rule or policy that prohibits the broadcasting of an athletic | ||
competition described by Subsection (b) solely on the basis of the | ||
day of the week on which the competition occurs. | ||
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, 2011. |