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Amendment H-1013 to HF 189

Relating to the eligibility of students enrolled in nonpublic schools to compete in extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or competitions provided by public schools, and including effective date provisions

Adopted · March 19, 2025

Filed February 13, 2025 in the House by

What it changes

AI summary This amendment adds a rule that nonpublic school students must follow the same conditions as public school students, including meeting the school district's code of conduct. It also changes the requirement for when a student can participate in a neighboring district's activities to include cases where the student's own school district does not offer the activity.1

Read the amendment’s wording
  1. Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: “Section
  2. Section 280.13, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 280.13 Requirements for interscholastic athletic contests and competitions.
  3. A public school shall not participate in or allow students representing a public school to participate in any extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition which is sponsored or administered by an organization as defined in this section , unless the organization is registered with the department of education, files financial statements with the department in the form and at the intervals prescribed by the director of the department of education, and is in compliance with rules which the state board of education adopts for the proper administration, supervision, operation, adoption of eligibility requirements, and scheduling of extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests and competitions and the organizations.
  4. a. For the purposes of this section “organization” means a corporation, association, or organization to which all of the following apply: (1) The corporation, association, or organization has as one of its primary purposes the sponsoring or administration of extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or competitions , but . (2) The corporation, association, or organization monitors student participation in extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or competitions pursuant to section 280.13D. b. “Organization” does not include an agency of this state, a public or private school or school board, or an athletic conference or other association whose interscholastic contests or competitions do not include more than twenty-four schools.”
  5. Page 1, line 6, by striking “immediately”
  6. Page 1, by striking line 9 and inserting “has not been provided by the nonpublic school during the two immediately preceding school years, pursuant to the terms”
  7. Page 1, line 15, by striking “immediately”
  8. Page 1, by striking lines 18 and 19 and inserting “has not been provided by the nonpublic school or by the student’s school district of residence during the two immediately preceding school years, pursuant to the terms of an agreement”
  9. Page 2, after line 2 by inserting: “
  10. A student who is enrolled in a nonpublic school and is participating in a contest or competition at a public school pursuant to subsection 1, paragraph “a” or “b” , shall participate under the same conditions as a student who is enrolled in the school district, including meeting the school district’s student code of conduct requirements.”
  11. Page 2, line 3, by striking “
  12. ” and inserting “
  13. ”
  14. By renumbering as necessary.

Official amendment (PDF) · In the Bill Book