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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6688

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senators Rinehart, Bailey and Conner

Read first time 1/22/90 and referred to Committee on  Education.

AN ACT Relating to the mentor athletes in the public schools program; creating a new section; and making an appropriation.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     (1) The mentor athletes program is hereby created.  The program shall be designed to bring visiting athletes into both elementary and secondary public schools.  The purpose of the program is to help encourage participation in both physical education programs and sports activities.  The visiting athletes shall be representative of the groups of students underrepresented in athletics at the secondary school level.  By providing role models, the program will help teach students about the values of physical education and athletics and teach students that all students should have equal opportunities to participate.

          (2) The program shall be conducted by the superintendent of public instruction.  The superintendent of public instruction may contract with educational service districts to conduct the program throughout the state or in regions of the state.

          (3) This section shall expire June 30, 1993.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The sum of forty-nine thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1991, from the general fund to the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes of this act.