SECOND REGULAR SESSION
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE WRIGHT (137) .
Read 1st time January 17, 2006 and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 174, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to college athletics.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 174, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as sections 174.800, to read as follows:
174.800. 1. Beginning with the 2007-08 school year, every institution of higher education in this state that participates in any National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I sport shall schedule at least one athletic contest a school year in each sport for which the institution participates at the NCAA Division I level with every other institution of higher education in this state that also participates in the same sport at the NCAA Division I level.
2. If the institutions of higher education subject to the provisions of this section cannot agree on the location of such athletic contests, the contest shall occur at the University of Missouri site in the first year and alternate sites every year thereafter.
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