H. B. 2911
(By Delegate Modesitt)
[Introduced February 25, 1999; referred to the
Committee on Education then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section twenty-five, article two,
chapter eighteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to requiring
county boards of education to employ a full-time athletic
administrator in each public secondary high school in their
respective counties to facilitate and coordinate athletic
activities at each respective school.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section twenty-five, article two, chapter eighteen of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one,
as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
§18-2-25. Authority of county boards to regulate athletic and
other extracurricular activities of secondary schools; athletic administrator required at each
public secondary high school; delegation of
authority to West Virginia secondary school
activities commission; authority of commission;
approval of rules by state board; incorporation;
funds; participation by private and parochial
schools.
The county boards of education are hereby granted and shall
exercise the control, supervision and regulation of all
interscholastic athletic events, and other extracurricular
activities of the students in public secondary schools, and of
said schools of their respective counties. To improve the
administration of athletic activities within our state's public
secondary high schools, the county boards of education shall
employ a full-time athletic administrator in each public
secondary high school in their respective counties to facilitate
and coordinate athletic activities at each respective school.
The county board of education may delegate such the control,
supervision and regulation of interscholastic athletic events and
band activities to the "West Virginia secondary school activities
commission," which is hereby established.
The West Virginia secondary school activities commission
shall be composed of the principals, or their representatives, of those secondary schools whose county boards of education have
certified in writing to the state superintendent of schools that
they have elected to delegate the control, supervision and
regulation of their interscholastic athletic events and band
activities of the students in the public secondary schools in
their respective counties to said commission. The West Virginia
secondary school activities commission is hereby empowered to
exercise the control, supervision and regulation of
interscholastic athletic events and band activities of secondary
schools, delegated to it pursuant to this section. The rules and
regulations of the West Virginia secondary school activities
commission shall contain a provision for a proper review
procedure and review board and be promulgated in accordance with
the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, but shall,
in all instances be subject to the prior approval of the state
board. The West Virginia secondary school activities commission,
may, with the consent of the state board of education,
incorporate under the name of "West Virginia Secondary School
Activities Commission, Inc.," as a nonprofit, nonstock
corporation under the provisions of chapter thirty-one of this
code. County boards of education are hereby authorized to expend
moneys for and pay dues to the West Virginia secondary school
activities commission, and all moneys paid to such commission, as
well as moneys derived from any contest or other event sponsored by said commission, shall be quasi-public funds as the same are
defined in article five, chapter eighteen, and such funds of the
commission shall be subject to an annual audit by the state tax
commissioner.
The West Virginia secondary school activities commission
shall promulgate reasonable rules and regulations providing for
the control, supervision and regulation of the interscholastic
athletic events and other extracurricular activities of such the
private and parochial secondary schools as elect to delegate to
such the commission such control, supervision and regulation,
upon the same terms and conditions, subject to the same
regulations and requirements and upon the payment of the same
fees and charges as those provided for public secondary schools.
Any such private or parochial secondary school shall receive any
monetary or other benefits in the same manner and in the same
proportion as any public secondary school.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require county boards
of education to employ a full-time athletic administrator in each
public secondary high school in their respective counties to
facilitate and coordinate athletic activities at each respective
school.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.