House File 2173 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY SWAIM
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act establishing penalties for anabolic steroid use by a
2 student athlete and for the procurement, sale, or
3 administration of an anabolic steroid by a person who holds a
4 license, certificate, or coaching authorization issued by the
5 board of educational examiners.
6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 272.2, subsection 14, Code 2005, is
1 2 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
1 3 NEW PARAGRAPH. e. In addition to the penalty established
1 4 for a violation of section 126.3, subsection 23, the board
1 5 shall suspend or revoke the license, certificate, or coaching
1 6 authorization of a person for up to three years upon the
1 7 board's finding by a preponderance of evidence that the person
1 8 willfully and knowingly, with the intent to compromise the
1 9 outcome of an athletic competition, procured, sold, or
1 10 administered an anabolic steroid, as defined in section 126.2,
1 11 or caused such drug to be procured, sold, or administered, to
1 12 a student, or failed to report the use of such drugs by a
1 13 student to the administrators of a school district or
1 14 accredited nonpublic school.
1 15 Sec. 2. Section 280.13, Code 2005, is amended to read as
1 16 follows:
1 17 280.13 REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC CONTESTS
1 18 AND COMPETITIONS.
1 19 1. A public school shall not participate in or allow
1 20 students representing a public school to participate in any
1 21 extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or
1 22 competition which is sponsored or administered by an
1 23 organization as defined in this section, unless the
1 24 organization is registered with the department of education,
1 25 files financial statements with the department in the form and
1 26 at the intervals prescribed by the director of the department
1 27 of education, and is in compliance with rules which the state
1 28 board of education adopts for the proper administration,
1 29 supervision, operation, adoption of eligibility requirements,
1 30 and scheduling of extracurricular interscholastic athletic
1 31 contests and competitions and the organizations.
1 32 2. An organization that meets the requirements of
1 33 subsection 1 shall develop, implement, and enforce rules that
1 34 make a student who is a member of a school athletic team
1 35 ineligible to compete in interscholastic athletic competition
2 1 for two consecutive school years if it has been determined by
2 2 the administrators of a school district or an accredited
2 3 nonpublic school that the student athlete used an anabolic
2 4 steroid, as defined in section 126.2, during the training
2 5 period immediately preceding or during the sport season of the
2 6 athletic team for which the student athlete competed, unless
2 7 the anabolic steroid was prescribed for a medical condition by
2 8 a physician licensed pursuant to chapter 148, 150, or 150A, or
2 9 a physician assistant licensed pursuant to chapter 148C.
2 10 3. For the purposes of this section "organization" means a
2 11 corporation, association, or organization which has as one of
2 12 its primary purposes the sponsoring or administration of
2 13 extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or
2 14 competitions, but does not include an agency of this state, a
2 15 public or private school or school board, or an athletic
2 16 conference or other association whose interscholastic contests
2 17 or competitions do not include more than twenty=four schools.
2 18 EXPLANATION
2 19 This bill establishes penalties for anabolic steroid use by
2 20 a student athlete and for the procurement, sale, or
2 21 administration of an anabolic steroid, with the intent to
2 22 compromise the outcome of an athletic competition, by a person
2 23 who holds a license, certificate, or coaching authorization
2 24 issued by the board of educational examiners.
2 25 The bill provides that the board shall suspend or revoke
2 26 the license, para=educator certificate, or coaching
2 27 authorization of a person for up to three years upon the
2 28 board's finding by a preponderance of evidence that the person
2 29 willfully and knowingly, with the intent to compromise the
2 30 outcome of an athletic competition, procured, sold, or
2 31 administered an anabolic steroid or cause such drug to be
2 32 procured, sold, or administered to a student athlete, or
2 33 failed to report the use of such drugs by a student to the
2 34 administrators of a school district or accredited nonpublic
2 35 school.
3 1 The bill requires an organization that sponsors or
3 2 administers extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests
3 3 or competitions for students enrolled in a school district or
3 4 accredited nonpublic school to develop, implement, and enforce
3 5 rules making a student athlete ineligible for interscholastic
3 6 competition for two school years if the school district or
3 7 school's administrators determine that the student athlete
3 8 used an anabolic steroid during the training period
3 9 immediately preceding or during the sport season of the
3 10 athletic team for which the student competed, unless the
3 11 steroid was prescribed by a physician or a physician assistant
3 12 for a medical condition.
3 13 The Code currently prohibits the selling, dispensing, or
3 14 distributing; causing to be sold, dispensed, or distributed;
3 15 or possessing with the intent to sell, dispense, or
3 16 distribute, an anabolic steroid to a person under 18 years of
3 17 age, with knowledge that the anabolic steroid is not necessary
3 18 for the legitimate treatment of disease pursuant to an order
3 19 of a physician. A person who violates these provisions
3 20 commits an aggravated misdemeanor.
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