Bill Text: TX HB1775 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the University Interscholastic League regarding activities involving sports officials.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1775 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1775-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the University Interscholastic League regarding activities involving sports officials.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1775 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1775-Introduced.html
83R7501 PAM-F | ||
By: Thompson of Brazoria | H.B. No. 1775 |
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relating to the authority of the University Interscholastic League | ||
regarding activities involving sports officials. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 33.085 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.085. AUTHORITY OF UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC | ||
LEAGUE REGARDING ACTIVITIES INVOLVING SPORTS OFFICIALS. (a) In | ||
this section, "sports official": | ||
(1) means a person who officiates, judges, or in any | ||
manner enforces contest rules in any official capacity with respect | ||
to an interscholastic, intercollegiate, or other organized amateur | ||
or professional athletic competition; and | ||
(2) includes a referee, umpire, linesman, side judge, | ||
track or field marshal, timekeeper, down marker, or scorekeeper or | ||
any other person similarly involved in supervising competitive | ||
play. | ||
(b) The University Interscholastic League may not register, | ||
charge fees to, or require membership in or attempt to register, | ||
charge fees to, or require membership in any sponsoring | ||
organization of sports officials as a precondition for a sports | ||
official to contract with a school district or open-enrollment | ||
charter school. | ||
(c) The University Interscholastic League may not sponsor | ||
or organize or attempt to sponsor or organize any organization of | ||
sports officials. | ||
(d) The University Interscholastic League may not influence | ||
or attempt to influence the selection of a sports official by a | ||
school district or open-enrollment charter school. | ||
(e) The University Interscholastic League may set rates or | ||
fee schedules payable by a school district or open-enrollment | ||
charter school to a sports official. | ||
(f) Before the University Interscholastic League takes any | ||
action that relates to the activities of a sports official, the | ||
league must submit the proposed action to the interscholastic | ||
league advisory council for review and comment. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |