Official Agenda of the
Sixth FHSAA Representative Assembly

Monday & Tuesday, Apr. 14-15, 2003
FHSAA Headquarters
Gainesville, Florida


The Sixth Representative Assembly of the Florida High School Activities Association will meet at the FHSAA state office, 1801 NW 80th Boulevard, Gainesville, Florida, beginning at 1 p.m. Monday, April 14, 2003, and 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 15, 2003.

Session 1, Monday, April 14, 2003

A. Call to Order. Pledge of Allegiance. McDonald.

B. Completion of Expense Reimbursement Vouchers. Hughes.

C. Roll Call of Delegates (Supplement A). McDonald.

Chairperson McDonald will instruct the Clerk of the Assembly to call the roll. Each delegate will answer present when his/her name is called.

D. Adoption of Agenda. McDonald.

E. Review of Assembly Operational Guidelines (Supplement B). Hughes.

F. Election of Chairperson. McDonald.

Chairperson McDonald will call for nominations for Chairperson from the floor. Pursuant to FHSAA Bylaws and Robert’s Rules of Order, the Chairperson will be elected for one year and will be eligible for reelection each subsequent year that he/she remains a delegate to the Representative Assembly. The Chairperson will have a vote in all matters coming before the Assembly. A majority of delegates casting votes will elect the Chairperson.

G. Election of Vice Chairperson. Chair.

The Chair will call for nominations for Vice Chairperson from the floor. Pursuant to FHSAA Bylaws and Robert’s Rules of Order, the Vice Chairperson will be elected for one year and will be eligible for reelection each subsequent year that he/she remains a delegate to the Representative Assembly. The Vice Chairperson will serve in the capacity of Chairperson in the absence of the Chairperson. The Vice Chairperson will have a vote in all matters coming before the Assembly. A majority of delegates casting votes will elect the Vice Chairperson.

H. First Reading of Proposals to Amend the Bylaws. Chair.

The Chair will instruct the Clerk of the Assembly to read the summary of each proposal. When a proposal is read, the Chair will then recognize those individuals who have registered at the meeting their desire to speak for or against the proposal.

Each individual who addresses the Assembly will be allotted three (3) minutes in which to make his/her comments. Following the individual’s presentation, delegates may direct questions to him/her for a period of time to be determined by the Chair.

Proposal 1 (Supplement C). An act relating to elections of member school representatives to the Association Board of Directors, Representative Assembly and Sectional Appeals Committees; amending Article 5.1.1; requiring declarations of candidacy to be filed and balloting to be conducted electronically rather than on paper in Association elections; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Robert W. Hughes, Commissioner, FHSAA.

Proposal 2 (Supplement D). An act relating to vacancies on the Association Board of Directors, Representative Assembly and Sectional Appeals Committees; amending Article 5.2; stipulating that the Board of Directors’ appointment to fill a vacant seat shall be for the duration of the unexpired term rather than until the next regularly scheduled election of the Association; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Robert W. Hughes, Commissioner, FHSAA.

Proposal 3 (Supplement E). An act relating to school eligibility for participation in the state championship series; amending Article 9.7.1; requiring eligible schools to sponsor a varsity program in a minimum of four (4) sanctioned sports, at least two (2) of which must be team sports, rather than two (2) sanctioned sports per sports season; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Robert W. Hughes, Commissioner, FHSAA.

Proposal 4 (Supplement F). An act relating to school eligibility for participation in the state championship series; amending Article 9.7.1; requiring eligible schools to sponsor a program at any level in a minimum of three (3) sanctioned sports during the school year, rather than a varsity program in a minimum of two (2) sanctioned sports per sports season; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Dawn M. Tipton, Athletic Director, Pinellas Christian Homeschool (Clearwater).

Proposal 5 (Supplement G). An act relating to school eligibility for participation in the state championship series; amending Article 9.7.1; stipulating that the required two sports per sports season may be either team sports or individual sports, provided the individual sports team consists of the prescribed number of participants necessary to participate as a team in the given sport; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Stephen Robinson, Headmaster, Saddlebrook Preparatory School (Wesley Chapel).

Proposal 6 (Supplement H). An act relating to school assignment to a classification for participation in the state championship series; amending Article 9.7.1; requiring the Association to reclassify a school that has won two consecutive state championships to the next higher classification level for the next classification period; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Keith Summers, Assistant Principal, Blountstown High School.

Proposal 7 (Supplement I). An act relating to student eligibility; amending Article 11.4.12; exempting from its provisions a student who has completed the highest possible grade at the school attended the previous year or is enrolling at the earliest possible grade at the school to which they have transferred; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Craig S. Maughan, Headmaster, Trinity Preparatory School (Winter Park).

Proposal 8 (Supplement J). An act relating to student eligibility; amending Article 11.4.12; inserting that the offending student is ineligible only in the sport in which the contact with the affiliated team occurred; inserting that any such contact that occurred 365 days prior to enrollment in the affiliated school will not be considered prima facie evidence of the violation; deleting reference to “any other person affiliated with” a school as an individual whose organizing or coaching of a team makes it school-affiliated; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Frank Prendergast, Director of Athletics, Lake Highland Preparatory School (Orlando).

Proposal 9 (Supplement K). An act relating to student eligibility; creating Article 11.4.22; stating that students entering the sixth grade for the first time are eligible in the schools in which they first enroll or make themselves candidates for athletic teams by engaging in practice prior to enrollment; exempting such students from the provisions of Article 11.4.12; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Craig S. Maughan, Headmaster, Trinity Preparatory School (Winter Park).

Proposal 10 (Supplement L). An act relating to student eligibility; creating Article 11.6.7; prohibiting the appeal of any ruling of ineligibility based on the age limit; amending Article 13.1.1 to conform; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Thomas Rowland, Principal, Jay High School.

Proposal 11 (Supplement M). An act relating to student eligibility; amending Article 11.13; requiring a school to file electronically rather than on paper form the annual eligibility report on each prospective student-athlete; changing in all references student to student-athlete; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Robert W. Hughes, Commissioner, FHSAA.

Proposal 12 (Supplement N). An act relating to penalties for rules violations; amending Article 12.1.1; clarifying the Commissioner’s authority to invoke one or more, or any combination of, the prescribed penalties; permitting the Commissioner also to invoke other penalties not prescribed that he/she may find reasonable and appropriate under the circumstances; providing an effective date. Sponsor: Robert W. Hughes, Commissioner, FHSAA.

I. Adjournment until 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 15. Chair.


Session 2, Tuesday, April 15, 2003

J. Call to Order. Pledge of Allegiance. Chair.

K. Roll Call of Delegates (Supplement A). Chair.

The Chair will instruct the Clerk of the Assembly to call the roll. Each delegate will answer present when his/her name is called.

L. Second Reading of Proposals to Amend the Bylaws and Balloting. Chair.

The Chair will instruct the Clerk to read the summary sentence of each proposal a second time. Following the second reading of a proposal, the Chair will then open the floor to debate on that proposal. Motions to amend the proposal will be addressed at this time. Debate will be concluded by either a call for the question from the floor or by order of the Chair. The Chair will then instruct delegates to mark and sign their ballots as to their preference with regard to the proposal on the floor. As the ballots on a proposal are collected and counted by staff, the second reading, debate and balloting on the next proposal shall proceed. This procedure shall be followed until the second reading, debate and balloting on all proposals are concluded. Results of the balloting on each proposal will be announced as tallied.

M. Comments by Delegates to the Representative Assembly.

N. Closing Comments by Chair and Commissioner.

O. Adjournment.