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.