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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 2725

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Representatives Jacobsen, Hine, Leonard, Belcher, Anderson, P. King, Wineberry and Todd

Read first time 1/19/90 and referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to interschool athletic and extracurricular activities; and amending RCW 28A.58.125.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 32, Laws of 1975-'76 2nd ex. sess. and RCW 28A.58.125 are each amended to read as follows:

          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) 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) 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) 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) All amendments and repeals of such rules and policies shall be subject to the review and approval of the state board; ((and))

          (5) 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.88.010 through 28A.88.015, as now or hereafter amended; and

(6) The activities in the Puget Sound metropolitan area school districts shall be regulated by a regional board empowered to make rules to meet the needs and problems of the metropolitan area.