Bill Text: TX HB2484 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the safety of a referee, judge, or other official at certain public school extracurricular activities and competitions and prohibiting certain conduct by a spectator related to those officials' safety.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective immediately [HB2484 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2484-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2484 |
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relating to the safety of a referee, judge, or other official at | ||
certain public school extracurricular activities and competitions | ||
and prohibiting certain conduct by a spectator related to those | ||
officials' safety. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 33.081, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (f-1), (f-2), and (f-3) and amending Subsection | ||
(g) to read as follows: | ||
(f-1) A school district shall prohibit a spectator of an | ||
extracurricular athletic activity or competition, including a | ||
parent or guardian of a student participant, from attending any | ||
future extracurricular athletic activity or competition sponsored | ||
or sanctioned by the school district or the University | ||
Interscholastic League if the spectator engages in conduct that | ||
intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to a | ||
person serving as referee, judge, or other official of an | ||
extracurricular athletic activity or competition in retaliation | ||
for or as a result of the person's actions taken in performing the | ||
duties of a referee, judge, or other official of the | ||
extracurricular athletic activity or competition. | ||
(f-2) A school district may establish an appeals process by | ||
which: | ||
(1) a person may appeal to the district a prohibition | ||
imposed under Subsection (f-1); and | ||
(2) the district may determine the facts associated | ||
with the conduct for which the school district imposed a | ||
prohibition under Subsection (f-1). | ||
(f-3) A prohibition imposed under Subsection (f-1) must be | ||
for not less than one year after the date on which the prohibition | ||
is imposed but may not exceed five years from the date on which the | ||
prohibition is imposed. | ||
(g) An appeal to the commissioner is not a contested case | ||
under Chapter 2001, Government Code, if the issues presented relate | ||
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eligibility based on conduct described by Subsection (e-1), or a | ||
spectator's eligibility to attend an extracurricular athletic | ||
activity or competition under Subsection (f-1). The commissioner | ||
may delegate the matter for decision to a person the commissioner | ||
designates. The decision of the commissioner or the commissioner's | ||
designee in a matter governed by this subsection may not be appealed | ||
except on the grounds that the decision is arbitrary or capricious. | ||
Evidence may not be introduced on appeal other than the record of | ||
the evidence before the commissioner. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 33.099 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.099. SAFETY OF OFFICIAL. A school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school that holds an extracurricular | ||
athletic activity or a University Interscholastic League athletic | ||
competition on district or school property shall provide a peace | ||
officer, a school resource officer, an administrator, or security | ||
personnel to ensure the safety of a referee, judge, or other | ||
official of the activity or competition until the official departs | ||
district or school property if: | ||
(1) a participant or spectator of the activity or | ||
competition engages in, attempts to engage in, or threatens violent | ||
conduct against the official or otherwise disrupts the duties or | ||
free movement of the official; or | ||
(2) the district or school reasonably suspects that an | ||
incident described by Subdivision (1) may occur at the activity or | ||
competition. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2484 was passed by the House on April | ||
14, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 4, 1 present, not | ||
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
H.B. No. 2484 on May 17, 2023, and requested the appointment of a | ||
conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
on H.B. No. 2484 on May 25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 133, | ||
Nays 10, 2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2484 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 15, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
2484 on May 25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |