SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 2116

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES JOHNSON (61), CUNNINGHAM AND MARBLE (Co-sponsors).

Read 1st time March 6, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 160, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to schools that participate in activities associations.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 160, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 160.1000, to read as follows:

160.1000. 1. No public or private school shall become a member of or retain membership in any statewide activities association that fails to comply with chapter 610, RSMo, or fails to allow students the opportunity to be represented by counsel or any other person of the student's or student's parents' or guardians' choosing at any hearing or meeting of the association at which a student's eligibility to participate in any athletic or other activity is at issue.

2. The records and meetings of any association described in subsection 1 of this section are subject to chapter 610, RSMo, and all revenues derived from dues paying public or private schools and expenditures related to such revenues shall be considered an open record for the purposes of chapter 610, RSMo.


Missouri House of Representatives