(RALEIGH) -- The state Legislature is looking at changes in high school sports. House Bill 253 will allow home schooled students to participate in interscholastic athletics at the public school level.

Senior Director of Athletics for Wake County Schools, Bobby Guthrie, said such a law would make it difficult to determine eligibility for athletes. "It is hard enough for us to try to determine athletic eligibility for those students and residency and things like that.  It's hard enough for us to determine that when the students are enrolled and attending our schools," said Guthrie.

Last academic year, there were over 81,000 home schooled students in North Carolina. Another bill in the legislature would also expand the opportunity to play high school sports to charter and private schools that do not offer sports.