By: Frank (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 699

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 17, 2023; April 18, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 18, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 18, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE VOTE

YeaNayAbsentPNV

CreightonX

CampbellX

BettencourtX

BirdwellX

FloresX

KingX

LaMantiaX

MenéndezX

MiddletonX

ParkerX

PaxtonX

SpringerX

WestX

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to determining the student enrollment of a public school that allows non-enrolled students to participate in University Interscholastic League activities for purposes of assigning a University Interscholastic League classification.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 33.0832, Education Code, as added by Chapter 996 (H.B. 547), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, is amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:

(c-1) When assigning league classification to a public school based on student enrollment, the league must use the same student enrollment calculation formula for a school that allows a non-enrolled student to participate in a league activity as provided by Subsection (c) as the formula used to determine the student enrollment of a school that does not allow a non-enrolled student to participate in the league activity.

SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 school year.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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