By Van de Putte H.B. No. 3284
76R14900 KEL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the establishment and use of a women's athletic
1-3 development fund and a study of women's athletic development
1-4 practices at institutions of higher education.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 51, Education Code, is amended by adding
1-7 Subchapter V to read as follows:
1-8 SUBCHAPTER V. WOMEN'S ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT FUND
1-9 Sec. 51.831. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
1-10 (1) "Board" has the meaning assigned by Section
1-11 61.003.
1-12 (2) "Fund" means the women's athletic development fund
1-13 established under this subchapter.
1-14 (3) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
1-15 assigned by Section 61.003.
1-16 Sec. 51.832. ADMINISTRATION OF FUND. The women's athletic
1-17 development fund is a fund in the state treasury. The board shall
1-18 administer the fund.
1-19 Sec. 51.833. USE OF FUND. The board shall allocate money in
1-20 the fund to institutions of higher education to support women's
1-21 athletic development programs that are operated by the institution
1-22 on a collaborative basis with one or more public high schools in
1-23 this state.
1-24 Sec. 51.834. CRITERIA IN SELECTING PROGRAMS. In selecting
2-1 programs to be supported with money from the fund, the board shall
2-2 give priority to programs addressing the needs of public high
2-3 school students whose economic conditions limit their access to
2-4 athletic facilities, programs, and opportunities. The board shall
2-5 also consider other relevant factors, including whether a program:
2-6 (1) promotes gender equity;
2-7 (2) includes the participation of collegiate-level
2-8 coaches and athletes, to the extent the participation is allowed by
2-9 the rules of the national intercollegiate athletic association of
2-10 which the institution of higher education operating the program is
2-11 a member; and
2-12 (3) has a history of increasing athletic
2-13 opportunities.
2-14 Sec. 51.835. FUNDING. The board may not implement this
2-15 subchapter unless money is specifically appropriated for that
2-16 purpose.
2-17 SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating
2-18 Board shall conduct a best practices study of women's athletic
2-19 development programs currently operated by public institutions of
2-20 higher education in Texas and in other states and shall make its
2-21 findings and recommendations available not later than December 1,
2-22 2000, in a report to the legislature and to the public institutions
2-23 of higher education in this state.
2-24 (b) The report shall include an analysis of the effect of
2-25 the programs studied under Subsection (a) of this section on
2-26 subsequent student enrollment in and academic performance at public
2-27 or private institutions of higher education.
3-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, but only
3-2 if a specific appropriation for the implementation of this Act or
3-3 of Subchapter V, Chapter 51, Education Code, as added by this Act,
3-4 is provided in H.B. No. 1 (General Appropriations Act), Acts of the
3-5 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999. If no specific
3-6 appropriation for that purpose is provided in H.B. No. 1, this Act
3-7 has no effect.
3-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.