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1 1 Section 1. Section 256.46, Code 1995, is amended to read
1 2 as follows:
1 3 256.46 RULES FOR PARTICIPATION IN EXTRACURRICULAR
1 4 ACTIVITIES BY CERTAIN CHILDREN.
1 5 The state board shall adopt rules that permit a child who
1 6 does not meet the residence requirements for participation in
1 7 extracurricular interscholastic contests or competitions
1 8 sponsored or administered by an organization as defined in
1 9 section 280.13 to participate in the contests or competitions
1 10 immediately if the child is duly enrolled in a school, is
1 11 otherwise eligible to participate, and meets one of the
1 12 following circumstances or a similar circumstance: the child
1 13 has been adopted; the child is placed under foster or shelter
1 14 care; the child is living with one of the child's parents as a
1 15 result of divorce, separation, death, or other change in the
1 16 child's parents' marital relationship; the child is a foreign
1 17 exchange student; the child has been placed in a juvenile
1 18 correctional facility; the child is a ward of the court or the
1 19 state; the child is a participant in a substance abuse or
1 20 mental health program; or the child is enrolled in an
1 21 accredited nonpublic high school because the child's district
1 22 of residence has entered into a whole grade sharing agreement
1 23 for the pupil's grade with another district. In the case of
1 24 extracurricular interscholastic contests or competitions which
1 25 require participation during the summer after regular school
1 26 classes have ended, the rules shall not require that a child
1 27 meeting one of the listed circumstances or a similar
1 28 circumstance be enrolled in a school in the school district in
1 29 which the child is residing for the summer, but the rules
1 30 shall require that the child submit evidence to the school
1 31 district in which the child is residing for the summer that
1 32 the child is duly enrolled and in good standing in the school
1 33 of the child's residence during the school year.
1 34 EXPLANATION
1 35 This bill requires the state board of education to adopt
2 1 rules under chapter 17A that specify that a child who resides
2 2 in a school district during the summer that is different from
2 3 the school district in which the child resides during the
2 4 school year may, due to certain listed special circumstances
2 5 in the child's life, participate in extracurricular
2 6 interscholastic contests or competitions in the school
2 7 district in which the child resides during the summer.
2 8 LSB 3133HH 76
2 9 kh/sc/14
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