SSB 1023 (LSB 1664XC (2) 91)

SENATE FILE _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION BILL BY CHAIRPERSON EVANS)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to participation in cocurricular and extracurricular activities offered by school districts by pupils who open enroll for purposes of receiving educational instruction and course content primarily over the internet.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 282.18, subsection 12, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   12.  a.  A pupil participating in open enrollment for purposes of receiving educational instruction and course content primarily over the internet in accordance with section 256.7, subsection 32, may participate in any cocurricular or extracurricular activities offered to children in the pupil’s grade or group, and sponsored by the district of residence, under the same conditions and requirements as the pupils enrolled in the district of residence, if the school providing the educational instruction and course content primarily over the internet does not sponsor such cocurricular or extracurricular activities.
   b.  The pupil may participate in not more than two cocurricular or extracurricular activities during a school year unless the resident district approves the student’s pupil’s participation in additional activities.
   c.  The student pupil shall comply with the eligibility, conduct, and other requirements relating to the activity that are established by the district of residence for any student pupil who applies to participate or who is participating in the activity.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to participation in cocurricular and extracurricular activities offered by school districts by pupils who open enroll for purposes of receiving educational instruction and course content primarily over the internet.
   Current law allows pupils who participate in open enrollment for purposes of receiving educational instruction and course content primarily over the internet to participate in any cocurricular or extracurricular activities offered in the pupil’s grade or group and sponsored by the pupil’s district of residence under the same conditions and requirements as the pupils enrolled in the district of residence. The bill provides that such pupils may only participate in such cocurricular or extracurricular activities if the school providing the educational instruction and course content primarily over the internet does not sponsor such cocurricular or extracurricular activities.
   The bill makes other nonsubstantive and stylistic changes to Code section 282.18(12).