Bill Text: TX SB401 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to participation by non-enrolled students in University Interscholastic League-sponsored activities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 5)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective immediately [SB401 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB401-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 401 | ||
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| relating to participation by non-enrolled students in University | ||
| Interscholastic League-sponsored activities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 33.0832, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsections (c) and (e) and adding Subsections (c-2) and | ||
| (e-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Except as provided by Subsections (c-2) and | ||
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| sponsored by the league shall [ |
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| who otherwise meets league eligibility standards to represent that | ||
| school in a league activity, with the opportunity to participate in | ||
| the activity on behalf of the school in the same manner that the | ||
| school provides the opportunity to participate to students enrolled | ||
| in the school. | ||
| (c-2) Not later than the date specified under league rule, | ||
| the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of | ||
| an open-enrollment charter school may adopt a policy declining to | ||
| grant non-enrolled students the opportunity to participate in | ||
| league activities. | ||
| (e) Except as provided by Subsection (e-1), a [ |
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| non-enrolled student may only participate in a league activity for | ||
| the school in the school district that the student would be eligible | ||
| to attend based on the student's residential address. A | ||
| non-enrolled student who seeks to participate in a league activity | ||
| on behalf of a school shall be required to establish minimum proof | ||
| of residency acceptable to the district in the same manner as an | ||
| applicant to attend a school in the district under Section 25.001. | ||
| (e-1) If the school that a non-enrolled student would be | ||
| eligible to attend under Subsection (e) is subject to a policy | ||
| adopted under Subsection (c-2), the student may participate in a | ||
| league activity for the closest school, based on geographic | ||
| proximity to the student's residential address, that is not subject | ||
| to a policy adopted under Subsection (c-2). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| 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 September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 401 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 23, Nays 8. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 401 passed the House on | ||
| May 27, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 104, Nays 35, three | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
