By: Cuellar, H. H.B. No. 240 73R556 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to participation in University Interscholastic League 1-3 sponsored activities by home school students. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 21.9212 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 21.9212. INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE PARTICIPATION BY HOME 1-8 SCHOOL STUDENTS. (a) A child who is eligible to attend school 1-9 under Section 21.031(a) of this chapter may not be excluded from 1-10 participation in an activity sponsored by the University 1-11 Interscholastic League solely on the ground that the child is a 1-12 home school student. 1-13 (b) A home school student may participate in a 1-14 league-sponsored activity only on behalf of a school that the 1-15 student is eligible to attend under Section 21.031 of this code. 1-16 (c) This section does not exempt a home school student from 1-17 satisfying eligibility requirements for participating in 1-18 league-sponsored activities other than school district class 1-19 attendance requirements. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.