Senate Amendment 3018
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 61 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
1 3 following:
1 4 <Section 1. Section 256.46, Code 2007, is amended
1 5 to read as follows:
1 6 256.46 RULES FOR PARTICIPATION IN EXTRACURRICULAR
1 7 ACTIVITIES BY CERTAIN CHILDREN.
1 8 The state board shall adopt rules that permit a
1 9 child who does not meet the residence requirements for
1 10 participation in extracurricular interscholastic
1 11 contests or competitions sponsored or administered by
1 12 an organization as defined in section 280.13 to
1 13 participate in the contests or competitions
1 14 immediately if the child is duly enrolled in a school,
1 15 is otherwise eligible to participate, and meets one of
1 16 the following circumstances or a similar circumstance:
1 17 the child has been adopted; the child is placed under
1 18 foster or shelter care; the child is living with one
1 19 of the child's parents as a result of divorce,
1 20 separation, death, or other change in the child's
1 21 parents' marital relationship, or pursuant to other
1 22 court=ordered decree or order of custody; the child is
1 23 a foreign exchange student, unless undue influence was
1 24 exerted to place the child for primarily athletic
1 25 purposes; the child has been placed in a juvenile
1 26 correctional facility; the child is a ward of the
1 27 court or the state; the child is a participant in a
1 28 substance abuse or mental health program; the child is
1 29 participating in open enrollment because the child was
1 30 a victim of bullying in the prior district of
1 31 enrollment; or the child is enrolled in an accredited
1 32 nonpublic high school because the child's district of
1 33 residence has entered into a whole grade sharing
1 34 agreement for the pupil's grade with another district.
1 35 The rules shall permit a child who is otherwise
1 36 eligible to participate, but who does not meet one of
1 37 the foregoing or similar circumstances relating to
1 38 residence requirements, to participate at any level of
1 39 competition other than the varsity level. For
1 40 purposes of this section and section 282.18, "varsity"
1 41 means the highest level of competition offered by one
1 42 school or school district against the highest level of
1 43 competition offered by an opposing school or school
1 44 district.>
1 45 #2. Page 4, by inserting after line 24 the
1 46 following:
1 47 <Sec. . Section 282.18, subsection 13, Code
1 48 2007, is amended to read as follows:
1 49 13. A pupil who participates in open enrollment
1 50 for purposes of attending a grade in grades nine
2 1 through twelve in a school district other than the
2 2 district of residence is ineligible to participate in
2 3 varsity interscholastic athletic contests and athletic
2 4 competitions during the pupil's first ninety school
2 5 days of enrollment in the district except that the
2 6 pupil may participate immediately in a varsity
2 7 interscholastic sport if the pupil is entering grade
2 8 nine for the first time and did not participate in an
2 9 interscholastic athletic competition for another
2 10 school or school district during the summer
2 11 immediately following eighth grade, if the district of
2 12 residence and the other school district jointly
2 13 participate in the sport, if the sport in which the
2 14 pupil wishes to participate is not offered in the
2 15 district of residence, if the pupil chooses to use
2 16 open enrollment to attend school in another school
2 17 district because the district in which the student
2 18 previously attended school was dissolved and merged
2 19 with one or more contiguous school districts under
2 20 section 256.11, subsection 12, if the pupil
2 21 participates in open enrollment because the pupil's
2 22 district of residence has entered into a whole grade
2 23 sharing agreement with another district for the
2 24 pupil's grade, if the pupil is participating in open
2 25 enrollment because the pupil was a victim of bullying
2 26 in the prior district of enrollment, or if the parent
2 27 or guardian of the pupil participating in open
2 28 enrollment is an active member of the armed forces and
2 29 resides in permanent housing on government property
2 30 provided by a branch of the armed services. A pupil
2 31 who has paid tuition and attended school, or has
2 32 attended school pursuant to a mutual agreement between
2 33 the two districts, in a district other than the
2 34 pupil's district of residence for at least one school
2 35 year is also eligible to participate immediately in
2 36 interscholastic athletic contests and athletic
2 37 competitions under this section, but only as a member
2 38 of a team from the district that pupil had attended.
2 39 For purposes of this subsection, "school days of
2 40 enrollment" does not include enrollment in summer
2 41 school. For purposes of this subsection, "varsity"
2 42 means the same as defined in section 256.46.>
2 43 #3. By renumbering as necessary.
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2 47 MARK ZIEMAN
2 48 SF 61.704 82
2 49 kh/gg/6191
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