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| 2 | 2 | | *TNL312* 03/12/2025 7:43:30 AM TNL312 |
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| 3 | 3 | | State of Arkansas 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | 95th General Assembly A Bill 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Regular Session, 2025 SENATE BILL 438 3 |
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| 7 | 7 | | By: Senator A. Clark 5 |
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| 10 | 10 | | For An Act To Be Entitled 8 |
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| 11 | 11 | | AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOL PERSONNEL; TO PERMANENTLY 9 |
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| 12 | 12 | | BAN FROM COACHING A COACH OR AN ATHLETICS PERSONNEL 10 |
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| 13 | 13 | | MEMBER WHO RECRUITS A STUDENT; AND FOR OTHER 11 |
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| 14 | 14 | | PURPOSES. 12 |
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| 17 | 17 | | Subtitle 15 |
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| 18 | 18 | | TO PERMANENTLY BAN FROM COACHING A COACH 16 |
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| 19 | 19 | | OR AN ATHLETICS PERSONNEL MEMBER WHO 17 |
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| 20 | 20 | | RECRUITS A STUDENT. 18 |
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| 22 | 22 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: 20 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. Arkansas Code Title 6, Chapter 17, Subchapter 1, is amended 22 |
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| 25 | 25 | | to add an additional section to read as follows: 23 |
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| 26 | 26 | | 6-17-125. Recruitment — Prohibitions — Definitions. 24 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (a) As used in this section: 25 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (1) "Athletics personnel" means athletic directors and other 26 |
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| 29 | 29 | | individuals actively involved in organizing, training, or coaching athletic 27 |
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| 30 | 30 | | events for student athletes; 28 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (2) "Recruit" means the use of undue influence or special 29 |
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| 32 | 32 | | inducement by a coach or an athletics personnel member employed by a school 30 |
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| 33 | 33 | | that is a member of the Arkansas Activities Association in an attempt to 31 |
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| 34 | 34 | | encourage, induce, pressure, urge, or entice a prospective student of any age 32 |
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| 35 | 35 | | to transfer to the school or retain a student at the school for the purpose 33 |
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| 36 | 36 | | of participating in extracurricular activities; and 34 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (3) "School" means a public school district or an open -35 |
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| 38 | 38 | | enrollment public charter school. 36 SB438 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (b) A coach or an athletics personnel member who is employed by a 1 |
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| 42 | 42 | | school and is found by the Arkansas Activities Association to have recruited 2 |
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| 43 | 43 | | a student to the school at which he or she is employed shall be permanently 3 |
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| 44 | 44 | | banned from employment as a coach or an athletics personnel member at a 4 |
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| 45 | 45 | | school in this state. 5 |
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