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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | December 13, 2012 09:29 AM |
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| From: | Representative Jerry Knowles |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Repeal of Sports Gender Reporting Mandate |
| In the near future, I plan to re-introduce legislation to remove Article XVI-C from the Public School Code of 1949, which provides for disclosure of interscholastic athletic opportunities by our public school entities. This legislation is being introduced in response to concerns raised by school districts who view the reporting of interscholastic athletic opportunities as required by the Public School Code as an unfunded mandate. Additionally, concerns have been raised that the provisions of Title IX, which is federal law, are not applicable to local school districts, meaning this state law exceeds the requirements of federal law at the expense of our school districts. Decisions regarding sports program offerings and facilities are made at the local level and are intended to provide opportunities for all students. These decisions are made based on overall interest in having a specific sports program as well as the financial ability of a district to provide such programs. Since school districts are not required to offer interscholastic athletics programs by state or federal law, they should not be mandated to provide reporting regarding programs that are voluntarily offered at the local level. Previous co-sponsors of this bill include: Aument, Clymer, Harhart, Helm, Knowles, Murt, Mustio, Oberlander, Pickett, and Saylor. |
Introduced as HB1464