Bill Text: IA SF2352 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a working group to collaboratively develop a cohesive policy on academic ineligibility for participation in extracurricular activities. (Formerly SSB 3162.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-15 - Referred to Education. S.J. 693. [SF2352 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2352-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2352 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                     3162)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the establishment of a working group to
  2    collaboratively develop a cohesive policy on academic
  3    ineligibility for participation in extracurricular
  4    activities.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  EXTRACURRICULAR INTERSCHOLASTIC CONTESTS AND
  1  2 COMPETITIONS WORKING GROUP ==== REPORT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.  In
  1  3 an effort to bring consistency to interscholastic contests
  1  4 and competition academic ineligibility policies, it is
  1  5 the intent of the general assembly that the statewide
  1  6 corporations, associations, or organizations that have as
  1  7 their primary purpose the sponsoring or administration of
  1  8 extracurricular interscholastic contests or competitions for
  1  9 Iowa's secondary school students, including but not limited
  1 10 to the Iowa high school athletic association and the Iowa
  1 11 girls high school athletic union, convene a working group
  1 12 to collaboratively develop a cohesive policy on academic
  1 13 ineligibility. The policy shall address, at a minimum,
  1 14 efforts to combine or allow periods of ineligibility to run
  1 15 concurrently for students participating in multiple activities
  1 16 and measures that prevent students from avoiding a period of
  1 17 ineligibility by enrolling in a new activity that will count
  1 18 toward the student's period of ineligibility.  The report
  1 19 submitted may include recommendations for changes to state law
  1 20 relating to eligibility and ineligibility for extracurricular
  1 21 interscholastic contests and competitions. The working group
  1 22 shall submit the policy and its findings and recommendations in
  1 23 a report to the general assembly by January 1, 2019.
  1 24                           EXPLANATION
  1 25 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 26 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 27    This bill expresses legislative intent that the statewide
  1 28 entities that have as their primary purpose the sponsoring or
  1 29 administration of extracurricular interscholastic contests or
  1 30 competitions for Iowa's secondary school students, including
  1 31 but not limited to the Iowa high school athletic association
  1 32 and the Iowa girls high school athletic union, convene a
  1 33 working group to collaboratively develop a cohesive policy on
  1 34 academic ineligibility. The working group shall submit the
  1 35 policy and its findings and recommendations in a report to the
  2  1 general assembly by January 1, 2019.
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