82R9152 PAM-F
By: Weber H.B. No. 3028
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to activities by the University Interscholastic League
involving sports officials.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 33.085 to read as follows:
Sec. 33.085. RESTRICTIONS ON CERTAIN ACTIVITIES BY
INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUES INVOLVING SPORTS OFFICIALS. (a) In this
section, "sports official":
(1) means a person who officiates, judges, or in any
manner enforces contest rules in any official capacity with respect
to an interscholastic, intercollegiate, or other organized amateur
or professional athletic competition; and
(2) includes a referee, umpire, linesman, side judge,
track or field marshal, timekeeper, down marker, or scorekeeper or
any other person involved in supervising competitive play.
(b) The University Interscholastic League may not register,
charge fees to, or require membership in or attempt to register,
charge fees to, or require membership in any sponsoring
organization of sports officials as a precondition for a sports
official to contract with a school district or open-enrollment
charter school.
(c) The University Interscholastic League may not sponsor
or organize or attempt to sponsor or organize any organization of
sports officials.
(d) The University Interscholastic League may not influence
or attempt to influence the selection of a sports official by a
school district or open-enrollment charter school.
(e) The University Interscholastic League may not engage in
or attempt to engage in price-fixing activities or otherwise set or
attempt to set rates or fee schedules payable by a school district
or open-enrollment charter school to a sports official.
(f) Before the University Interscholastic League takes any
action that relates to the activities of a sports official, the
league must submit the proposed action to the interscholastic
league advisory council for review and comment.
SECTION 2. 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, 2011.