Florida Senate - 2021 SB 880 By Senator Rodriguez 39-00826-21 2021880__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the Florida High School Athletic 3 Association; requiring the Florida High School 4 Athletic Association to adopt specified bylaws or 5 policies; providing an effective date. 6 7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 8 9 Section 1. Paragraph (n) is added to subsection (2) of 10 section 1006.20, Florida Statutes, to read: 11 1006.20 Athletics in public K-12 schools.— 12 (2) ADOPTION OF BYLAWS, POLICIES, OR GUIDELINES.— 13 (n) The FHSAA shall adopt bylaws or policies that: 14 1. Authorize a member school to provide 30 seconds of 15 opening remarks over a public-access system before the start of 16 an athletic competition. 17 2. Prohibit the FHSAA from controlling, monitoring, or 18 reviewing the contents of any member school’s opening remarks. 19 3. Require that, before any opening remarks, a public 20 address announcer announce that: “The content of the following 21 opening remarks is not endorsed by the FHSAA or reflective of 22 the views or opinions of the FHSAA.” 23 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.