The state Senate Committee on Education, chaired by Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, February 23 at 10:30 am in room 411 South of the State Capitol. The committee will consider several appointments and receive public testimony on the following bills:
Senate Bill 39 (Sen. Stroebel) The bill allows a pupil who attends a virtual charter school to participate in interscholastic athletics and extracurricular activities in the pupil’s resident school district.
This bill also prohibits a school district from being a member of an interscholastic athletic association (WIAA) in the 2021-22 school year unless, during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years, for purposes of eligibility during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years, the interscholastic athletic association considers the method by which educational programming was delivered during the 2020-21 or 2021-22 school year to be an extenuating circumstance that justifies transferring schools.
WASB Position: Oppose (Resolutions 3.97, 3.98)
Senate Bill 69 (Sen. Darling) This bill incorporates the Holocaust and other genocides into the state model
social studies standards and requiring instruction on the Holocaust and other genocides.
WASB Position: Under review
Senate Bill 95 (Sen. Darling) This bill creates sudden cardiac arrest awareness/information requirements for youth sports similar to those currently required for concussions/head injuries.
Under the bill, at the beginning of a youth athletic activity season, an operator of the youth athletic activity must distribute a sudden cardiac arrest information sheet to each person who wishes to participate in the activity. The bill prohibits a person from participating in a youth athletic activity until the person returns the information sheet signed by the person and, if the person is 18 years old or younger, the person’s parent or guardian.
WASB Position: Neutral
Senate Bill 109 (Sen. Ballweg) During the 2021-22 school year, this bill allows a pupil to attend a “fully virtual
option” (as defined in the bill) offered by a nonresident school board or a charter school located in a nonresident school district under the full-time open enrollment program.
WASB Position: Under review
Senate Bill 110 (Sen. Ballweg) Current law limits the number of nonresident school boards to which a pupil
may apply to attend a public school in a nonresident school district under the full-time open enrollment program to three nonresident school boards in any school year.
WASB Position: Under review
