Bill > SF321

Introduced Session

This bill relates to the expenditure of public moneys for dues or membership fees to high school organizations that do not use required enrollment calculations when determining school classifications for extracurricular interscholastic activities. The bill defines “extracurricular interscholastic activity” as a contest or competition for sports between different schools and outside the regular scope of a school’s curriculum. The bill defines “organization” as a corporation, association, or organization which has as one of its primary purposes the sponsoring or administration of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, but does not include an agency of this state, a public or private school or school board, or an athletic conference or other association whose interscholastic contests or competitions do not include more than 24 schools. The bill prohibits a school district or charter school from expending any moneys to pay dues or membership fees to a high school organization, or be a member of, participate in activities associated with, or receive services from such an organization after January 1, 2027, unless the organization, for the purposes of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, classifies each school participating in an extracurricular interscholastic activity for each school year beginning on or after July 1, 2026, based on enrollment, as adjusted for nonpublic schools that accept payment from an education savings account. Adjusted enrollment is calculated by multiplying the total number of students enrolled in the nonpublic school by 1.5. However, an organization cannot move a nonpublic school up more than one classification. Each nonpublic school must give its enrollment numbers to an organization prior to the beginning of a school calendar. The bill does not apply to eight-person football. For the school year beginning July 1, 2025, the bill provides that an organization may classify schools according to the methodology described in the bill, and school districts, charter schools, and nonpublic schools may expend moneys to pay dues or membership fees to an organization that does so.

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Adrian Dickey (R)*,  Dawn Driscoll (R)*,  Lynn Evans (R)*,  Tom Shipley (R)*,  Dan Zumbach (R)*, 

Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (on 03/03/2025)

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