By Nixon                                              H.B. No. 1240
       74R5620 KKA-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to participation of private schools in the University
    1-3  Interscholastic League.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.921, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  The University Interscholastic League may not deny a
    1-8  school the opportunity to participate in interscholastic
    1-9  competitions sanctioned or conducted by the league because the
   1-10  school is a private school.  The league's rules must be designed to
   1-11  allow all schools in this state to participate in league activities
   1-12  in the same manner.
   1-13        (f)  In this section, "private school" has the meaning
   1-14  assigned by Section 5.001.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1996-1997
   1-16  school year.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.