CODE OF VIRGINIA

ORGANIZATIONS GOVERNING PUBLIC SCHOOL INTERSCHOLASTIC PROGRAMS; PARTICIPATION BY
STUDENTS IN MILITARY FAMILIES (§ 22.1-5.1)

A. No public elementary or secondary school shall become a member of any
organization or entity whose purpose is to regulate or govern interscholastic
programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who:

   1.  Previously attended the school and (i) moved with a parent, as defined in
   § 22.1-1, out of the school’s attendance area because that parent is a
   full-time active duty member of the uniformed services of the United States,
   including service in the National Guard and Reserve on active duty orders
   pursuant to 10 U.S.C. §§ 1209 and 1211, and received orders to relocate and
   (ii) moved back to and currently lives in the school’s attendance area;
   or

   2.  Continues to live in the school’s attendance area, but whose parent,
   as defined in § 22.1-1, moved out of the school’s attendance area
   because that parent is a full-time active duty member of the uniformed
   services of the United States, including service in the National Guard and
   Reserve on active duty orders pursuant to 10 U.S.C. §§ 1209 and 1211, and
   received orders to relocate.

B. Nothing in this section shall affect the school board’s discretion to
admit a student to a public school in the local school division and charge
tuition for his attendance if the student is not deemed to reside in the local
school division pursuant to §§ 22.1-3 and 22.1-5.

HISTORY: 2013, c. 553.