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Kentucky lawmakers object to regulation on athletic eligibility

FRANKFORT Ky.

A legislative panel objected to a regulation on Tuesday that requires student athletes who transfer from a public to a private high school or vice versa to sit out for a year.

The Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee found the regulation to be deficient, generating calls from lawmakers for the State Board of Education to withdraw it.

State Sen. Dick Roeding, R-Lakeside Park, co-chairman of the subcommittee, said if the regulation isn’t withdrawn, he and other lawmakers will push for legislation that would override it.

“They are penalizing students in order to regulate the supposed recruiting of athletes, instead of penalizing the offending school,” Roeding said. “Why go after an innocent bystander and take away a year of eligibility. That’s really wrong.”

Under the regulation approved by the Board of Education earlier this year, high school athletes could still practice with their teams but not play in games.

The regulation was a softer version of a proposal that would have blocked transfer students in those situations from participating in their sport at the high school level for a year.

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