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Relating to the eligibility to participate in varsity interscholastic athletic contests and athletic competitions of pupils who participate in open enrollment due to the death of the pupil’s friend or relative
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 12, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Students who move to a new school through open enrollment because a friend or relative died would be allowed to play on varsity sports teams right away. Currently, most students moving to a different school district have to wait before they can join athletic competitions. This change adds bereavement as a special reason that lets these students participate immediately.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the eligibility to participate in varsity interscholastic athletic contests and athletic competitions of pupils who participate in open enrollment due to the death of the pupil’s friend or relative. Current law prohibits a pupil who participates in open enrollment for purposes of attending grades through in a school district other than the pupil’s district of residence from participating in varsity interscholastic athletic contests and athletic competitions during the pupil’s first school days of enrollment in the receiving district. However, current law establishes several exceptions to this general prohibition that allow such a pupil to participate immediately. The bill adds to that list of exceptions circumstances where the pupil participates in open enrollment because the pupil is bereaved due to the death of the pupil’s friend or relative.
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§282.18