Florida SB 538: State and Local Governmental Relations with The Government of Venezuela

Bill Text

538 
Extracurricular Activities 
2026-03-12T08:02:49Z 
Authorizing district school boards to adopt policies for the use of certain funds to provide funding to specified persons relating to extracurricular activities; revising eligibility requirements for a student to participate in an interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activity; requiring the athletic director or other appropriate administrator to maintain records for all eligible students participating in interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activities at a member school; authorizing a public school to assess an activity fee for certain students; prohibiting a student from participating in interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activities at two different schools within the same school year unless the student meets specified criteria, etc. 
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 2 An act relating to extracurricular activities; 
 3 amending s. 1001.43, F.S.; authorizing district school 
 4 boards to adopt policies for the use of certain funds 
 5 to provide funding to specified persons relating to 
 6 extracurricular activities; prohibiting such funds 
 7 from being used as severance pay or compensation; 
 8 amending s. 1006.15, F.S.; providing and revising 
 9 definitions; revising eligibility requirements for a 
 10 student to participate in an interscholastic or 
 11 intrascholastic extracurricular activity; providing 
 12 construction; deleting obsolete provisions; requiring 
 13 governing organizations to adopt, maintain, and 
 14 enforce specified manuals or handbooks; requiring that 
 15 insurance provided by district school boards for 
 16 participants in extracurricular activities cover any 
 17 eligible student; deleting requirements for the 
 18 Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to 
 19 facilitate a program for private school students to 
 20 participate in an interscholastic or intrascholastic 
 21 sport; requiring the athletic director or other 
 22 appropriate administrator to maintain records for all 
 23 eligible students participating in interscholastic or 
 24 intrascholastic extracurricular activities at a member 
 25 school; revising requirements for a student to apply 
 26 to participate in an interscholastic or 
 27 intrascholastic extracurricular activity at certain 
 28 schools; authorizing a public school to assess an 
 29 activity fee for certain students; providing a 
 30 limitation on such fee; requiring such fee to be 
 31 annually approved by a district school board or 
 32 charter school governing board, as appropriate; 
 33 requiring each school to annually publish a complete 
 34 list of such fees on its website; requiring school 
 35 districts and charter schools to annually report such 
 36 fees to the Department of Education; requiring parents 
 37 to provide transportation to and from the school for 
 38 their students; providing indemnity for a school and 
 39 district school board under specified circumstances; 
 40 prohibiting a student from participating in 
 41 interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular 
 42 activities at two different schools within the same 
 43 school year unless the student meets specified 
 44 criteria; requiring the governing organization to 
 45 provide a certain determination of eligibility within 
 46 a specified timeframe; requiring the governing 
 47 organization to adopt specified bylaws; authorizing 
 48 the governing organization to adopt additional bylaws; 
 49 deleting provisions providing requirements for certain 
 50 student transfers; amending s. 1002.31, F.S.; deleting 
 51 obsolete language; conforming provisions to changes 
 52 made by the act; amending s. 1002.33, F.S.; conforming 
 53 a cross-reference and provisions to changes made by 
 54 the act; amending s. 1006.195, F.S.; conforming cross 
 55 references; amending s. 1006.20, F.S.; requiring the 
 56 FHSAA to adopt, maintain, and enforce specified 
 57 manuals or handbooks; requiring the FHSAA to ensure 
 58 that athletes may request certain exemptions or 
 59 accommodations; requiring the FHSAA to provide 
 60 accommodations under certain circumstances; 
 61 authorizing a student who is denied certain 
 62 eligibility to appeal a decision made by the governing 
 63 organization; requiring the governing organization to 
 64 adopt bylaws to establish a timeline for an appeals 
 65 process; providing a limitation on such timelines; 
 66 authorizing the executive director of the FHSAA to 
 67 rule on specified appeals; amending s. 1012.01, F.S.; 
 68 including extracurricular athletic administrators in 
 69 the broad classification of K-12 administrative 
 70 personnel; authorizing district school superintendents 
 71 to negotiate specified compensation; providing 
 72 requirements for such compensation; providing an 
 73 effective date. 
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