| 1 | Representative Bean offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove everything after the enacting clause and insert: |
| 5 | Section 1. Subsection (8) is added to section 1006.15, |
| 6 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 7 | 1006.15 Student standards for participation in |
| 8 | interscholastic and intrascholastic extracurricular student |
| 9 | activities; regulation.-- |
| 10 | (8)(a) The Florida High School Athletic Association |
| 11 | (FHSAA), in cooperation with the district school boards of |
| 12 | Bradford County, Duval County, and Nassau County, shall |
| 13 | facilitate a 2-year pilot program during the 2008-2009 and 2009- |
| 14 | 2010 academic years in which an individual middle school or high |
| 15 | school student who attends a private school that is not a member |
| 16 | of the FHSAA and does not sponsor an interscholastic or |
| 17 | intrascholastic athletic program shall be eligible to |
| 18 | participate at a public high school, a public middle school, or |
| 19 | a 6-12 public school that is zoned for the physical address at |
| 20 | which the student resides. |
| 21 | (b) The association's board of directors and the |
| 22 | participating district school boards shall establish guidelines |
| 23 | for the conduct of the pilot program that, at a minimum, shall |
| 24 | provide for the following: |
| 25 | 1. A deadline for each sport by which the student's |
| 26 | parents must register with the school in writing their intent |
| 27 | for their child to have an opportunity to participate at that |
| 28 | school in the desired sport or sports. |
| 29 | 2. A requirement that a student participating in the pilot |
| 30 | program must demonstrate educational progress by meeting the |
| 31 | academic requirements for student athletes as established by the |
| 32 | association's bylaws or district school board rules. |
| 33 | 3. A requirement that a participating student meet the |
| 34 | same standards of acceptance, behavior, and performance that are |
| 35 | required of other students participating in the interscholastic |
| 36 | or intrascholastic athletic programs of the school. |
| 37 | 4. Other requirements for student eligibility as may be |
| 38 | established by the association's bylaws and district school |
| 39 | board rules. |
| 40 | (c) The student's parents must be fully responsible for |
| 41 | the transportation of their child to and from the private school |
| 42 | the student attends, or the student's home, to the public school |
| 43 | at which the student participates. |
| 44 | (d) The private school the student attends, the public |
| 45 | school at which the student engages in the athletic program, the |
| 46 | district school board, and the FHSSA are exempt from civil |
| 47 | liability arising from any injury that occurs to the student |
| 48 | while being transported to and from the school the student |
| 49 | attends, or the student's home, to the public school at which |
| 50 | the student engages in the athletic program. |
| 51 | (e) A student is eligible in the public school in which |
| 52 | the student first enrolls each school year or makes himself or |
| 53 | herself a candidate for an athletic team by engaging in a |
| 54 | practice and is only eligible in that school for the academic |
| 55 | year. |
| 56 | (f) International or immigrant students who attend a |
| 57 | private school are ineligible to participate in the athletic |
| 58 | program of a public school unless the student is approved by the |
| 59 | FHSAA. The student is responsible for submitting any documents |
| 60 | required by the association to determine his or her eligibility. |
| 61 | (g) No later than August 1, 2008, the association shall |
| 62 | submit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the |
| 63 | House of Representatives a copy of the guidelines established by |
| 64 | the association's board of directors for the conduct of the |
| 65 | pilot program. |
| 66 | (h) No later than January 1, 2010, the association and the |
| 67 | participating district school boards shall submit to the |
| 68 | President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of |
| 69 | Representatives a report on the progress of the pilot program. |
| 70 | The report shall include the number of students taking advantage |
| 71 | of the pilot program, the number of transfers to the public |
| 72 | schools at which students participated under the pilot program, |
| 73 | problems experienced with the pilot program, and recommendations |
| 74 | on how the pilot program might be improved and expanded to |
| 75 | include other counties. |
| 76 | (i) This subsection shall stand repealed on June 30, 2010, |
| 77 | unless reviewed and reenacted by the Legislature. |
| 78 | Section 2. This act shall take upon becoming a law. |
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| 81 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 82 | Remove the entire title and insert: |
| 83 | A bill to be entitled |
| 84 | An act relating to interscholastic and intrascholastic sports; |
| 85 | amending s. 1006.15, F.S.; requiring the Florida High School |
| 86 | Athletic Association, in cooperation with specified district |
| 87 | school boards, to facilitate a pilot program in which a middle |
| 88 | school student or a high school student in a private school may |
| 89 | participate in athletics at a public school; providing |
| 90 | conditions for such participation; requiring the association's |
| 91 | board of directors and the district school boards to establish |
| 92 | guidelines for conducting the pilot program; specifying |
| 93 | requirements and restrictions; requiring the association to |
| 94 | submit to the Legislature a copy of established guidelines; |
| 95 | requiring a report to the Legislature on the progress of the |
| 96 | pilot program; providing for repeal of the pilot program unless |
| 97 | reviewed and reenacted by the Legislature; providing an |
| 98 | effective date. |