Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session
Relating to: grants for participation in esports competitions and making an appropriation. (FE)
Amusement Parochial and private schools Public instruction department of School School — Health program
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill creates a pilot program under which the Department of Public
Instruction awards grants to eligible teams for expenses related to participating in
esports competitions. Under the bill, an esports competition is an organized,
multiplayer video game competition. To be eligible for an esports participation grant,
a team must be comprised of pupils and at least one mentor and must demonstrate
to DPI that it will provide matching funds equal to the amount of the grant. Under
the bill, DPI must administer the esports participation grant pilot program in the
2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23 school years. Finally, the bill requires DPI to
publish a list of grant recipients on its Internet site and to submit a report on the pilot
program to the legislature.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Full history
- Mar 11, 2020 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives McGuire, Haywood, Brostoff and Stubbs
- Mar 11, 2020 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Education
- Mar 24, 2020 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Mar 25, 2020 · Assembly
Representative Ohnstad added as a coauthor
- Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1