By: Frank (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 699
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 17, 2023;
  April 18, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Education; May 18, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 18, 2023, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE VOTE
 
 
         YeaNayAbsentPNV
         CreightonX
         CampbellX
         BettencourtX
         BirdwellX
         FloresX
         KingX
         LaMantiaX
         MenéndezX
         MiddletonX
         ParkerX
         PaxtonX
         SpringerX
         WestX
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to determining the student enrollment of a public school
  that allows non-enrolled students to participate in University
  Interscholastic League activities for purposes of assigning a
  University Interscholastic League classification.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 33.0832, Education Code, as added by
  Chapter 996 (H.B. 547), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2021, is amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
  follows:
         (c-1)  When assigning league classification to a public
  school based on student enrollment, the league must use the same
  student enrollment calculation formula for a school that allows a
  non-enrolled student to participate in a league activity as
  provided by Subsection (c) as the formula used to determine the
  student enrollment of a school that does not allow a non-enrolled
  student to participate in the league activity.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
  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, 2023.
 
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