BILL REQ. #:  S-3719.1 

Read first time 01/14/2004.   Referred to Committee on Education.

     AN ACT Relating to information on disciplinary actions taken against coaches; and amending RCW 28A.600.200.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 28A.600.200 and 1990 c 33 s 502 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Each school district board of directors is hereby granted and shall exercise the authority to control, supervise and regulate the conduct of interschool athletic activities and other interschool extracurricular activities of an athletic, cultural, social or recreational nature for students of the district. A board of directors may delegate control, supervision and regulation of any such activity to the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association or any other voluntary nonprofit entity and compensate such entity for services provided, subject to the following conditions:
     (((1))) (a) The voluntary nonprofit entity shall submit an annual report to the state board of education of student appeal determinations, assets, and financial receipts and disbursements at such time and in such detail as the state board shall establish by rule;
     (((2))) (b) The voluntary nonprofit entity shall not discriminate in connection with employment or membership upon its governing board, or otherwise in connection with any function it performs, on the basis of race, creed, national origin, sex or marital status;
     (((3))) (c) Any rules and policies applied by the voluntary nonprofit entity which govern student participation in any interschool activity shall be written and subject to the annual review and approval of the state board of education at such time as it shall establish;
     (((4))) (d) All amendments and repeals of such rules and policies shall be subject to the review and approval of the state board; and
     (((5))) (e) Such rules and policies shall provide for notice of the reasons and a fair opportunity to contest such reasons prior to a final determination to reject a student's request to participate in or to continue in an interschool activity. Any such decision shall be considered a decision of the school district conducting the activity in which the student seeks to participate or was participating and may be appealed pursuant to RCW 28A.645.010 through 28A.645.030.
     (2) The Washington interscholastic activities association or other voluntary nonprofit entity to which the school district board of directors has delegated control under subsection (1) of this section may create and maintain a web site that is accessible to the public that lists coaches who have had any disciplinary action taken against them by a school district or the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the grounds for the disciplinary action.
     (3) Each school district shall provide the Washington interscholastic activities association or other voluntary nonprofit entity chosen under subsection (1) of this section information on an annual basis of any disciplinary action taken against a coach employed by the school district.
     (4) For the purposes of this section, "disciplinary action" includes private or public reprimand, suspension, stayed suspension, or revocation of a license. A disciplinary action shall not be posted on the web site if an appeal is still pending. A voluntary surrender of a license or a voluntary termination of employment during an investigation or a disciplinary action shall be posted on the web site as such.