Bill Text: TX SB619 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting a student from participating in future extracurricular activities for certain conduct involving the assault of an extracurricular activity official.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Education [SB619 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB619-Introduced.html
87R5944 MWC-D | ||
By: Lucio | S.B. No. 619 |
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relating to prohibiting a student from participating in future | ||
extracurricular activities for certain conduct involving the | ||
assault of an extracurricular activity official. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 33.081, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e-1) and amending Subsections (f) and (g) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(e-1) A student who is enrolled in a school district in this | ||
state or who participates in a University Interscholastic League | ||
competition shall be prohibited from participation in any future | ||
extracurricular activity sponsored or sanctioned by the school | ||
district or the University Interscholastic League if the student | ||
engages in conduct that contains the elements of the offense of | ||
assault under Section 22.01(a)(1), Penal Code: | ||
(1) against a person serving as referee, judge, or | ||
other official of an extracurricular activity; and | ||
(2) 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 activity. | ||
(f) Except for a student prohibited from participation | ||
under Subsection (e-1), a [ |
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may practice or rehearse with other students for an extracurricular | ||
activity but may not participate in a competition or other public | ||
performance. | ||
(g) An appeal to the commissioner is not a contested case | ||
under Chapter 2001, Government Code, if the issues presented relate | ||
to a student's eligibility to participate in extracurricular | ||
activities, including issues related to the student's grades, [ |
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the school district's grading policy as applied to the student's | ||
eligibility, or the student's eligibility based on conduct | ||
described by Subsection (e-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. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2021. |