Chronology of Past LHSRA Actions

Any proposal from persons other than the Executive Committee must be submitted to the Executive Secretary in writing at least 30 days prior to the annual General Assembly. All proposed amendments are to be mailed to the membership at least one week prior to the Assembly meeting. (April, 1970)
No school may enter more than one student in each individual literary event at State Rally. (April, 1972)
Any bona fide student officially enrolled in a state approved Louisiana high school is eligible to enter district and state rally competition in subject(s) currently being taken in high school. (April, 1973)
A student not officially enrolled in high school is not eligible for District and State Rally competition. (April, 1973)
District qualification for Special Open Foreign Language events are waived. (April, 1973)
Delete from Literary competition the four event/subjects (Latin I and II; German I and II) having the lowest evidence of participation and add four event/subjects from list of normally surveyed. (March, 1974)
Four courses shall be added to District and State Rally competition: General Business, Government, Economics, and Sociology. (March, 1974)
The event/subjects of American Government and Shorthand I are eliminated and replaced by Computer Literacy and Environmental Science. (March, 1989)
Eliminate Typewriting I from State Rally competition, but retain Spelling. Should the demand for Overall Winner Scholarship funds exceed the amount of the Overall Winner Scholarship pool, then the Spelling winner(s) would not be eligible to claim the Overall Winner Scholarship. (April, 1989)
Reinstate Keyboarding/Typewriting I – without the timed writing section – as a State Rally literary event. (April, 1992)
Change the title of the Executive Secretary of the Louisiana High School Rally Association to Executive Director effective immediately. (April, 1998)
Add Calculus to State Rally competition as a regular event. (April, 1999)
Amend the constitution to: define quorum for GAP meeting, clearly define parliamentary authority, and the procedure for amending the constitution. (April, 1999)
Create a fifth division of competition for all Rally events. The new breakdowns are by Divisions: I (1001 – up students), II (501-1000 students), III (251-500 students), IV (151-250 students), and V (1-150 students). (April, 2000)
Reclassify Rally Literary Events in two areas: Advanced Math event is reclassified as Advanced Mathematics II and Trigonometry is reclassified as Advanced Mathematics I. Stipulation made the Calculus I and II students be eliminated from competition in the Advanced Mathematics events. (April, 2000)
LHSRA Constitution amended in Article IV, Section 1 and Article IV, Section 6 to provide for the creation of the Assistant Executive Director position. (April, 2003)
Removed Computer Literacy, French III, Spelling, Keyboarding/Typewriting, and Administrative Support Occupations from rally competition. Replaced with Computer Science, Introduction to Business Computer Application, Business Computer Application, Business/Financial Math, and Psychology. (April, 2004)
ELIGIBILITY RULES – we need to clarify # 2 for block scheduling. Steve Soutullo will provide language from Southeastern’s rally. Under Eligibility rules for Speech and Music Rallies, we will ask the GAP to add language to part B as follows: “festival must have been completed by the date of District Rally.” (2004)
CALCULATOR USE POLICY – under this policy State Rally will issue a statement that no cell phones and pagers will be allowed in testing or competition rooms. (2004)
LHSRA website was completed. (2004)
A periodic table will be provided by LHSRA for all District and State Rally Chemistry tests. (2008)
Students will be allowed to use an LHSRA approved calculator on all Mathematics tests. (2008)
If a District Rally does not offer speech competitions, students may still qualify for State Rally through the LHSSL if they qualify for the Tournament of Champions (cf. Music open events and LMEA qualification). (2008)
LHSRA has requested that schools submit a formal request on behalf of students for any special test accommodations. Special Test Accommodation forms are available on the State Rally website. (2008)
The listserv reply e-mail will be changed to rally@lsu.edu. The listserv will be used primarily for one-way communication to broadcast announcements only. (2008)
The General Assembly recommended consideration of expanding Rally events to include Chemistry II, Health/Physical Education, Anatomy, European History as a separate event from World History, and Macro/Microeconomics as separate events from Free Enterprise. (2008)
The LSU Office of Continuing Education will be responsible for test revisions as all tests are to be revised. Comprehensive curriculum will be followed. (2009)
The State Rally dues will be doubled and the late fee will remain the same beginning with the 2010-11 academic year. In order for our schools to plan their annual budgets, the Association will review the dues and late fees every three (3) years with the next review to be during the 2013-14 academic year. (2010)
Develop a test bank of questions from which to create district and state tests each year. (2010)
Introduction to Business Computer Applications and Business Computer Applications tests have also been reviewed, corrected, and updated by the faculty in the College of Business at LSU so that these tests are based on Office 2007. (2010)
Constitution and Policy Changes, Dues should now be paid to the LHSRA by the first Friday of December each year, with late fees due assessed by the first Friday of March of the following year. If dues have not been received by this March date participants in district and state rallies will be disqualified. (2010)
Schools will no longer receive plaques to commend the group performances in open events such as drama. (2010)
In speech events student will be penalized for failure to meet the preferred timed requirement of 5-7 minutes in “Extemporaneous Speaking” and 6-8 minutes in “Original Oratory”. (2010)
“Calculator Usage Policy” has been updated to read Mathematics, Chemistry, or Physics. (2010)
The Executive Committee voted to remove Agricultural Science IV from future competitions and in place the committee selected Health as an event since all Louisiana students are required to take this course. (2010)
It was suggested that we choose the district and state rallies dates two years in advance. (2010)
Requested that French III and Fine Arts Survey be literary events next year. (2011)
Authorized to keep $30,000 in the LHSRA checking account for operational purposes and to place the remaining monies into a 365-Day Savings Account so that at least some interest could be earned. (2012)
The Association no longer offers any State Rally monetary scholarships due to the lack of financial support from the State Legislature. Since 1994 the State has failed to support these scholarships. LSU picked up the tab until last year when it, too, had to make budget cuts as a result of the State cuts to higher education. (2012)
Students enrolled in courses for dual credit may participate in District and State Rallies because we want the schools to send their best students to the rally competitions. (2012)
All districts will offer all of the literary events at their district rallies. (2012)
A school can join and pay the district dues to any district they choose as their “home district.” (2012)
Districts not offering open events will allow their member schools to attend another district that offers open events if the schools want to participate in open events. (2012)
Should a school participate in their home district for literary events and a different district for open events, the school must pay membership dues to join the school’s home district as well as a fee requested by the district that is offering the open events. (2012)
Students may participate in two (2) open events, bar no conflicts in scheduling. (2012)
Cleve shared with the group that he had heard that Free Enterprise was not going to be offered next year, but that it was going to merge with Civics which would then be valued as one Carnegie Unit as opposed to a ½ unit like it has been in the past. Therefore, we will need to incorporate Free Enterprise into our current Civics event. (2012)

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Chronology of Past LHSRA Actions