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90_HB1025ham001
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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1025
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 1025 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 High School Basketball Tournament Act.
6 Section 5. Definitions. For the purposes of this Act:
7 "Association" means the entity that is primarily
8 responsible for promoting, sponsoring, regulating, and
9 otherwise providing post-season interscholastic high school
10 boys basketball tournaments in Illinois.
11 "Tournament" means the State Class A and Class AA boys
12 high school basketball tournaments that are played, as
13 single-elimination tournaments at the same site to determine
14 the State high school basketball championship teams from
15 those classes, by the 8 teams in each class that remain after
16 all other participating boys high school basketball teams in
17 the State in the same competition class have been defeated
18 and eliminated from further competition.
19 Section 10. Tournament site selection requirements. In
20 selecting and contracting for the tournament site, an
21 association must comply with all of the following
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1 requirements:
2 (1) The association must make its site selection after
3 consideration of written proposals. In soliciting these
4 proposals, the association must: (i) specify minimum
5 requirements; (ii) identify evaluation criteria and indicate
6 their relative importance; and (iii) ensure that adequate
7 response time is made available for submission of proposals.
8 (2) The association must prepare a site proposal
9 evaluation form. The association must complete the form with
10 respect to each properly prepared and submitted proposal that
11 it receives, and must use the completed forms in the course
12 of evaluating the proposals and selecting the tournament
13 site.
14 (3) The association must: (i) develop written
15 contracting policies and procedures for tournaments; (ii)
16 keep complete records of the tournament site selection and
17 contracting processes, including the minutes of regular and
18 special board meetings; and (iii) require board members and
19 administrators who participate in contracting to sign an
20 annual conflict of interest statement that requires
21 disclosure of all relations with affected public and private
22 organizations.
23 Section 15. Participation requirements. The governing
24 body of a public high school in this State shall not:
25 (1) pay membership or other dues or fees to an
26 association that fails to comply with the requirements of
27 Section 10 in selecting or contracting for a tournament
28 site that is selected and contracted for after the
29 effective date of this Act; or
30 (2) participate in, sponsor, or use public funds to
31 support participation by any of its students in a
32 tournament if the tournament site is selected and
33 contracted for after the effective date of this Act,
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1 unless the tournament site is selected and contracted for
2 in accordance with the requirements of Section 10.
3 Section 25. Severability. The provisions of this Act
4 are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
5 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6 becoming law.".
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