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Senate ups eligibility barrier for transfer athletes from 90 school days to 140 calendar days
Summary
House File 25 91 (Senate file 25 91) changes varsity athletic eligibility for transferring students from 90 consecutive school days to 140 calendar days; a senate amendment sets an effective date of Aug. 1, 2026. The Senate passed the measure 46–0 on final passage.
Senator Shipley, the senator from Adams, described House File 25 91 as amending athletic eligibility for students who transfer: under the bill a student enrolling in a new school would be ineligible to compete in interscholastic varsity athletics for the first 140 calendar days of enrollment (current law uses 90 school days). He said exceptions in existing code remain and that the change responds to expanded four-day school weeks, with the senator's remarks noting the date-change amendment to 08/01/2026 to ease scheduling.
Senate Amendment 51-03 (which makes the provision begin on Aug. 1, 2026) was adopted; the bill was read for the final time, the title agreed to, and the Senate recorded 46 ayes and 0 nays on final passage. The measure was ordered messaged to the House by unanimous consent.
