No. CS/CS/CS/SB 538
Filed under Education.
Extracurricular Activities; Authorizing district school boards to adopt policies for the use of certain funds to provide funding to specified persons relating to extracurricular activities; revising eligibility requirements for a student to participate in an interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activity; requiring the athletic director or other appropriate administrator to maintain records for all eligible students participating in interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activities at a member school; authorizing a public school to assess an activity fee for certain students; prohibiting a student from participating in interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activities at two different schools within the same school year unless the student meets specified criteria, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDDistrict boards may now allow booster clubs to pay coaches and activity directors, provided funds are not used for severance pay or compensation.
The definition of an eligible student expands to include home education, charter, private, virtual, and alternative school students, not just traditional public school students.
Home education students may participate in interscholastic or intrascholastic activities at their enrolled school or a district school if their home school does not offer the activity.
A student may not participate in sports at two different schools during the same school year, unless specific exceptions such as military orders or foster care relocation are met.
AIPermits district boards to allow booster clubs to pay coaches and activity directors, with specific restrictions on how those funds can be used.
AIBroadens the definition of an eligible student to include home education, charter, private, virtual, and alternative school students, not just traditional public school students.
AIGrants home education students the right to participate in interscholastic or intrascholastic activities at their enrolled school or a district school if their home school does not offer the activity.
AIAllows eligible students to participate in activities at a school other than their enrolled school if the enrolled school does not offer the activity or the student is in a home education program.
AIProhibits a student from participating in sports at two different schools during the same school year unless specific exceptions such as military orders or foster care relocation are met.
AICreates a mandatory duty for the state athletic association to write and enforce the actual rules of competition, rather than leaving them to individual districts.
AIGrants students a specific deadline to ask for changes to real-time scoring, with the FHSAA legally required to provide access to those accommodations if the request is timely.
AILimits the time the FHSAA board has to resolve a student's eligibility appeal, preventing indefinite delays that could cost a student a season.