Bill Text: TX HB2768 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a ban from subsequent competition of a public or private school student who assaults a sports official or other competition judge during an extracurricular competition.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Referred to Public Education [HB2768 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2768-Introduced.html
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| By: Isaac | H.B. No. 2768 | |
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| relating to a ban from subsequent competition of a public or private | ||
| school student who assaults a sports official or other competition | ||
| judge during an extracurricular competition. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.090 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.090. CERTAIN STUDENTS BANNED FROM COMPETITION. (a) | ||
| In this section: | ||
| (1) "Assault" means conduct that contains the elements | ||
| of the offense of assault under Section 22.01(a)(1) or (3), Penal | ||
| Code. | ||
| (2) "Association" means the Texas Association of | ||
| Private and Parochial Schools or a successor organization. | ||
| (3) "League" means the University Interscholastic | ||
| League. | ||
| (b) A public or private school student who assaults a sports | ||
| official or other competition judge during a competition sponsored | ||
| or sanctioned by the league or association is prohibited from | ||
| participating in any subsequent competition sponsored or | ||
| sanctioned by the league or association. | ||
| (c) The league or association may suspend the student's | ||
| eligibility to participate immediately on the occurrence of an | ||
| alleged assault during a competition. Subsequent league or | ||
| association action implementing the prohibition of the student from | ||
| competition under this section must occur in accordance with | ||
| league or association rules or procedures applicable to the | ||
| student's conduct, provided that the rules and procedures are | ||
| consistent with the requirements of this section. | ||
| (d) The prohibition of a student from competition under this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) remains in effect until the student graduates from | ||
| high school; and | ||
| (2) shall be enforced jointly by the league and | ||
| association, regardless of whether the assault occurred during a | ||
| competition sponsored or sanctioned by the league or the | ||
| association. | ||
| (e) For purposes of Subsection (d)(2), the league and | ||
| association shall share information regarding each student | ||
| prohibited from competition under this section on the basis of an | ||
| assault. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 33.090, Education Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies only to conduct that occurs on or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
