H.B. No. 800
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to school district use of a discriminatory athletic club
    1-3  for extracurricular activities.
    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 21.9205 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 21.9205.  EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES; USE OF
    1-8  DISCRIMINATORY ATHLETIC CLUB.  (a)  An extracurricular activity
    1-9  sponsored or sanctioned by a school district, including an athletic
   1-10  event or an athletic team practice, may not take place at an
   1-11  athletic club located in the United States that denies any person
   1-12  full and equal enjoyment of equipment or facilities provided by the
   1-13  athletic club because of the race, color, religion, creed, national
   1-14  origin, or sex of the person.
   1-15        (b)  In this section, "athletic club" means an entity that
   1-16  provides sports or exercise equipment or facilities to its
   1-17  customers or members or to the guests of its customers or members.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.