By Cuellar of Webb H.B. No. 68 75R445 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to participation by home school students in University 1-3 Interscholastic League sponsored activities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 33.0831 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 33.0831. INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE PARTICIPATION BY HOME 1-8 SCHOOL STUDENTS. (a) Each home school student entitled to attend 1-9 school under Section 25.001(a) is entitled to participate in an 1-10 activity sponsored by the University Interscholastic League on 1-11 behalf of the school district the student is eligible to attend 1-12 under Section 25.001(b) if the board of trustees of that school 1-13 district adopts a policy authorizing home school students to 1-14 participate in league-sponsored activities. 1-15 (b) This section does not exempt a home school student from 1-16 satisfying, as provided by league rule, each eligibility 1-17 requirement for participating in a league-sponsored activity other 1-18 than class attendance requirements. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-20 school year. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.