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Committee passes bill to standardize athletic transfer rules, mostly limiting eligibility after rising 10th-grade deadline
Summary
The House Education Committee passed HB 1633 (as amended), a six-page measure intended to equalize transfer eligibility rules for interscholastic athletics across public, private, charter and home-school students and to establish a June 1 reference date tied to the school-choice calendar.
Representative Brooks presented HB 1633, described in committee as an equalization of transfer rules across school types for athletic eligibility. Committee members and AAA (Arkansas Activities Association) representatives said the measure aims to unify previously different rules that applied to public, private, charter and home-school students.
"All it does is it equalizes the transferring in for the purpose of athletics…
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