SF 437 (LSB 2104SV (2) 88)

SENATE FILE 437

BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

(SUCCESSOR TO SF 287)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to academic eligibility standards for public school students participating in school-approved activities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 280.13, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   280.13  Requirements for interscholastic athletic contests and competitions.
     A public school shall not participate in or allow students representing a public school to participate in any extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition which is sponsored or administered by an organization as defined in this section, unless the organization is registered with the department of education, files financial statements with the department in the form and at the intervals prescribed by the director of the department of education, and is in compliance with rules which the state board of education adopts for the proper administration, supervision, operation, adoption of eligibility requirements, and scheduling of extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests and competitions and the organizations.  Such rules shall not impose multiple periods of ineligibility on a student for all school-approved activities for a single violation of the rules. For the purposes of this section, “organization” means a corporation, association, or organization which has as one of its primary purposes the sponsoring or administration of extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or competitions, but does not include an agency of this state, a public or private school or school board, or an athletic conference or other association whose interscholastic contests or competitions do not include more than twenty-four schools.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill provides that rules adopted by the state board of education for the proper administration, supervision, operation, adoption of eligibility requirements, and scheduling of extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests and competitions and sponsoring organizations shall not impose multiple periods of ineligibility on a student for all school-approved activities for a single violation of the rules.