By Bernsen                                            S.B. No. 1671
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to extracurricular activities sponsored or sanctioned by a
 1-3     school district or the University Interscholastic League.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 7.102(c)(27), Education Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7                 (27)  The board shall adopt rules relating to
 1-8     extracurricular activities under Section 33.081 and approve or [,]
 1-9     disapprove [, or modify] University Interscholastic League rules
1-10     and procedures under Section 33.083.
1-11           SECTION 2.  Section 33.081(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:  
1-13           (c)  A student who is enrolled in a school district in this
1-14     state or who participates in a University Interscholastic League
1-15     competition shall be suspended from participation in any
1-16     extracurricular activity sponsored or sanctioned by the school
1-17     district or the University Interscholastic League after a grade
1-18     evaluation period in which the student received a grade lower than
1-19     the equivalent of 70 on a scale of 100 in any academic class other
1-20     than an identified honors or advanced class.  A suspension
1-21     continues for at least three school weeks and is not removed during
1-22     the school year until the conditions of Subsection (d) are met.  A
1-23     suspension does not last beyond the end of a school year.  For
1-24     purposes of this subsection, "grade evaluation period" means:
 2-1                 (1)  the six-week grade reporting period; or
 2-2                 (2)  the first six weeks of a semester and each grade
 2-3     reporting period thereafter, in the case of a district with a grade
 2-4     reporting period longer than six weeks.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  Section 33.083(b), Education Code, is amended to
 2-6     read as follows:
 2-7           (b)  The University Interscholastic League is a part of The
 2-8     University of Texas at Austin and must submit its rules and
 2-9     procedures to the State Board of Education for approval or [,]
2-10     disapproval [, or modification].  The funds belonging to the
2-11     University Interscholastic League shall be deposited with The
2-12     University of Texas at Austin for the benefit of the league and
2-13     shall be subject to audits by The University of Texas at Austin,
2-14     The University of Texas System, and the state auditor.  Copies of
2-15     annual audits shall be furnished, on request, to members of the
2-16     legislature.
2-17           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-18           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.