By Nixon H.B. No. 94 75R1815 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to participation in University Interscholastic League 1-3 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. PARTICIPATION IN UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC 1-8 LEAGUE ACTIVITIES. (a) The University Interscholastic League may 1-9 not deny a child eligible to attend school under Section 25.001(a) 1-10 the opportunity to participate in an activity sponsored by the 1-11 league on the ground that the child does not attend public school. 1-12 The league may not deny a school the opportunity to participate in 1-13 an activity sponsored by the league because the school is a private 1-14 school. The league's rules must be designed to allow all children 1-15 and schools in this state to participate in league activities in 1-16 the same manner. 1-17 (b) A student is ineligible to participate in league 1-18 activities for a period of 300 days after the date the student 1-19 withdraws from public school if the student, at the time the 1-20 student withdraws, has a grade average for the portion of the 1-21 school year completed lower than the equivalent of 70 on a scale of 1-22 100 in any academic class, other than an identified honors or 1-23 advanced class. 1-24 (c) In this section, "private school" has the meaning 2-1 assigned by Section 22.081. 2-2 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 2-3 school year. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.