DIGEST
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HB 457 Engrossed 2015 Regular Session Talbot
Abstract: Provides relative to school membership in associations that prescribe eligibility to
participate in athletics.
Proposed law prohibits a public or nonpublic school that receives public funds from holding
membership in any interscholastic extracurricular athletic association or organization that has a rule
limiting the eligibility of an incoming high school freshman student to participate in junior varsity
or varsity athletics based upon the school the student attended the previous year unless the rule
applies only if the student's former school included grades nine through 12.
(Adds R.S. 17:176(G))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Education to the original bill:
1. Add an exception to the proposed law prohibition if the association's rule that limits an
incoming freshman's eligibility based on his previous school only applies if the student's
previous school had grades nine through 12.