By: Hochberg H.B. No. 28
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of a student to participate in
extracurricular activities or competitions after transferring or
moving from one public school to another.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 33.088 to read as follows:
Sec. 33.088. ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN TRANSFER STUDENTS. (a)
Except as provided by Subsection (b), a student who transfers to a
school or moves into the attendance zone of a school for the purpose
of participating in a specific extracurricular activity or a
specific University Interscholastic League competition offered at
that school is not ineligible to participate in the activity or
competition if:
(1) the activity or competition is not offered at the
school from which the student transferred or moved; and
(2) the student is otherwise eligible to participate
in the activity or competition.
(b) The University Interscholastic League may adopt rules
providing that a student who two or more times during a school year
transfers to a school or moves into the attendance zone of a school
for the purpose of participating in a specific league competition
offered at that school is ineligible to participate in the
competition.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012
school year.
SECTION 3. 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 October 1, 2011.