Below is a message from UHSAA regarding the new ruling that allows for student transfer from high school to high school w/o loss of eligibility to play sports. Obviously this new rule will also effect music and the arts...........and will have many unintended consequences, similarly to the ruling regarding the new classes for 6th and 8th graders.There is a board meeting tomorrow evening, and UHSAA has asked that we get the word out to the music education community. ________________________________________From: Josh Taylor [taylor@uhsaa.org]Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 3:52 PMSubject: UHSAAAssociation Reps,Thank you for attending today’s meeting at the UHSAA office. Below you will find contact information for the Utah State Board of Education, the Utah Senate, and the Utah House of Representatives. Please begin the process of having your communities contact these bodies immediately.Please be respectful and positive in your comments. Do not have your constituents submit copy/pasted form letters.Everyone should submit their own thoughts on how the Utah State Board of Education rule R277-409, particularly the language on transfers, would impact them and their school to rule.comments@schools.utah.gov<mailto:rule.comments@schools.utah.gov> by January 30th.Comments also need to be submitted to the Utah Senate and Utah House of Representatives by phone and/or email (using the contact info from the links below) regarding concern about any bill taking local control away from governing high school activities. Local control is defined as the UHSAA Board of Trustees made up of local school board members, superintendents and principals, which as a body, currently governs high school activities.UHSAA Board of Trustees and Executive Committee meeting agendas and minutes can be found at uhsaa.org/bot<http://www.uhsaa.org/bot> and uhsaa.org/ec<http://www.uhsaa.org/ec> respectively.Attached is the USBE hearing process for Thursday, and the language from R277-409.If you have questions regarding contacting state legislatures, please email UHSAA consultant Dave Spatafore (dave@spatafore.info<mailto:dave@spatafore.info>).Thank you so much for your time and efforts.Utah State Board of Education:1. R277-409 public hearing is Thursday, Jan. 19 at 5:30pm in the USBE Board room. All coaches are encouraged to attend.2. Public comment open until January 31st at rule.comments@schools.utah.gov<mailto:rule.comments@schools.utah.gov>Utah Senate with emails, phone numbers and committeeshttp://senate.utah.gov/senators/full-roster.htmlUtah House of Representatives roster with email and phone numbershttp://le.utah.gov/house2/representatives.jspOverall state Legislative website for all legislative informationhttp://le.utah.gov/