ON APRIL 7, 2025, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 16, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, prohibit a public school from using public funds to join, become members of, or maintain membership in an association that regulates interscholastic athletics unless the association allows a high school student who transfers for the first time to another member school and the transfer is due to a significant academic, social-emotional, environmental, or mental health need to be immediately eligible to participate in interscholastic athletics at the member school to which the student transfers, as long as the sending member school does not attest within seven days that the student's transfer is due to athletic or disciplinary reasons. ON APRIL 17, THE HOUSE SUBSTITUTED SENATE BILL 16 FOR HOUSE BILL 25, ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1, AND RESET SENATE BILL 16, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 purports to delete and replace two sections of the introduced bill that were removed by Senate Amendment #1.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 49-2-132, 49-2-136, 49-6-416