House File 2016 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2016 BY WILLS A BILL FOR An Act to allow a student to participate in an interscholastic 1 athletic activity sponsored or administered by a statewide 2 organization in an adjoining state. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5325YH (2) 86 kh/rj

H.F. 2016 Section 1. Section 280.13, Code 2016, is amended to read as 1 follows: 2 280.13 Requirements for interscholastic athletic contests and 3 competitions —— participation out-of-state . 4 1. A public school shall not participate in or allow 5 students representing a public school to participate in any 6 extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition 7 which is sponsored or administered by an organization as 8 defined in this section , unless the organization is registered 9 with the department of education, files financial statements 10 with the department in the form and at the intervals prescribed 11 by the director of the department of education, and is in 12 compliance with rules which the state board of education adopts 13 for the proper administration, supervision, operation, adoption 14 of eligibility requirements, and scheduling of extracurricular 15 interscholastic athletic contests and competitions and the 16 organizations. 17 2. Notwithstanding subsection 1, if the organizations 18 that meet the requirements of subsection 1 do not sponsor 19 or administer an interscholastic athletic activity in this 20 state, a student may participate in such an interscholastic 21 athletic activity sponsored or administered by a comparable 22 statewide organization operating in an adjoining state if the 23 school district or accredited nonpublic school in which the 24 student is enrolled enters into a written agreement with the 25 board of directors of the school district or the authorities 26 in charge of an accredited nonpublic school in the adjoining 27 state to provide for the eligibility of the student in the 28 interscholastic athletic activity. A boundary of the school 29 district or accredited nonpublic school in which the student 30 is enrolled must be contiguous to the boundary of the school 31 district in the adjoining state that is party to the written 32 agreement. For purposes of this subsection, the boundaries of 33 the school district in which an accredited nonpublic school is 34 located shall be considered the boundaries of the accredited 35 -1- LSB 5325YH (2) 86 kh/rj 1/ 3

H.F. 2016 nonpublic school. The written agreement shall be for a period 1 of not less than one school year and may be renewed annually or 2 until an organization in this state sponsors or administers the 3 interscholastic athletic activity in this state. The student 4 participating in an interscholastic athletic activity under 5 this subsection must be enrolled and in good standing in a 6 school district or an accredited nonpublic school in this state 7 and must meet the eligibility requirements adopted by rule by 8 the state board of education under section 256.46 which are 9 not in conflict with this subsection. A copy of the written 10 agreement shall be filed with the appropriate organizations in 11 this state and in the adjoining state in a timely manner. 12 3. For the purposes of this section “organization” means 13 a corporation, association, or organization which has as one 14 of its primary purposes the sponsoring or administration 15 of extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or 16 competitions, but does not include an agency of this state, 17 a public or private school or school board, or an athletic 18 conference or other association whose interscholastic contests 19 or competitions do not include more than twenty-four schools. 20 EXPLANATION 21 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 22 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 23 This bill allows a student to participate in an 24 interscholastic athletic activity sponsored or administered by 25 a comparable statewide high school athletic organization in an 26 adjoining state if the high school athletic organizations in 27 this state do not sponsor or administer the activity. 28 To participate in an athletic activity in another state, 29 the school district or accredited nonpublic school in which 30 the student is enrolled must enter into a written agreement 31 with the board of directors of the school district or the 32 authorities in charge of an accredited nonpublic school in 33 the adjoining state to provide for the eligibility of the 34 student in the interscholastic athletic activity. The student 35 -2- LSB 5325YH (2) 86 kh/rj 2/ 3

H.F. 2016 must be enrolled and in good standing in a school district or 1 an accredited nonpublic school and meet the state board of 2 education’s eligibility requirements that are not in conflict 3 with the provisions of the bill. 4 The boundary of the school district or accredited nonpublic 5 school in which the student is enrolled must be contiguous to 6 the boundary of the school district in the adjoining state 7 that is party to the written agreement. The boundaries of the 8 school district in which an accredited nonpublic school is 9 located shall be considered the boundaries of the accredited 10 nonpublic school. 11 The term of the written agreement is one school year and it 12 may be renewed annually or until an Iowa high school athletic 13 organization sponsors or administers the activity. A copy 14 of the written agreement must be filed with the appropriate 15 high school athletic organizations in this state and in the 16 adjoining state in a timely manner. 17 -3- LSB 5325YH (2) 86 kh/rj 3/ 3