BILL ANALYSIS
AB 2079
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 2079 (Torlakson and Davis)
As Amended August 20, 2010
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |58-17|(June 2, 2010) |SENATE: |24-11|(August 24, |
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Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED.
SUMMARY : Requires California postsecondary education
institutions that offer athletic scholarships to provide
specified information regarding athletic scholarships and
renewals, medical expenses, and athletic releases on their
Internet Web sites, beginning January 1, 2012. Specifically,
this bill :
1)Requires California colleges and universities that offer
athletic scholarships to provide the following information on
the Internet Web sites, beginning January 1, 2012, as
specified:
a) The college's most recent cost of attendance expenses;
b) The portion of these expenses prohibited, per the
National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) rules,
from inclusion in a full grant-in-aid scholarship;
c) Whether the college provides athletic scholarships for
summer school;
d) The average monthly scholarship payment received by
students living on- and off-campus;
e) Information regarding the college's and NCAA's policies
on scholarship renewals, payment of athletically-related
medical expenses, and athletic release for student athletes
wishing to transfer; and,
f) NCAA scholarship rules related to verbal offers and
National Letters of Intent, as specified.
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2)Requires a college or university that provides written
material regarding its athletic program to a student athlete
to include a direct link to the institution's Internet Web
page, where the student athlete shall be able to access all of
the information regarding the institution's athletic
scholarship program as described above, commencing January 1,
2012.
The Senate amendments :
1)Limit this bill's provisions to California postsecondary
education institutions.
2)Delete language requiring collegiate recruiters to sent
student athletes a specified disclosure letter within one week
of personal contact.
3)Delete language requiring any scholarship offer to be made in
writing to the student athlete, as specified, within one week
of a verbal offer.
4)Delete language requiring a college athletic program to send a
student athlete a follow up letter, as specified, to students
to whom the program has previously sent a written scholarship
offer, as specified.
5)Delete language requiring a collegiate recruiter to direct
student athletes who are in grade 11 or below to whom the
recruiter has made a scholarship offer to specified
information on the institution's Internet Web site.
6)Requires a college or university that provides written
material regarding its athletic program to a student athlete
to include a direct link to the institution's Internet Web
page, as specified, commencing January 1, 2012.
7)Make corresponding technical changes.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill required the specified
information be provided to student athletes in writing
following, as follows:
1)Required a collegiate athletic recruiter with specified
information relating to the college athletic program within
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one week of initiating personal contact with the student
athlete for purposes of athletic recruiting.
2)Required any scholarship offer to be made in writing within
one week of a verbal offer and prior to a student athlete
signing an athletic scholarship agreement with a postsecondary
educational institution and to include specified information
relating to the institution's athletic program.
3)Required a collegiate recruiter to direct student athletes who
are in grade 11 or below to whom the recruiter has made a
scholarship offer to specified information on the
institution's Internet Web site.
4)Applied to California and out-of-state postsecondary
educational institutions.
FISCAL EFFECT : Minor and absorbable for each campus to post
the required information on its Web site.
COMMENTS : Current law prohibits the giving or the promise of
giving money or anything of monetary value to as student-athlete
or his or her family member to encourage or reward their
application or attendance at an Institution of Higher Education,
as defined.
The NCAA is a voluntary association of about 1,200 colleges and
universities, athletic conferences, and sports organizations
that administer intercollegiate athletics. Volunteer
representatives from these schools and conferences establish
rules that govern the NCAA and programs designed to further its
purposes and goals. Currently, NCAA bylaws impose a number of
restrictions on student athlete financial assistance. For
example, NCAA Division 1 schools:
1)Cannot guarantee scholarships for more than one academic year.
2)Cannot finance student health insurance if the insurance is
provided or offered to the general student body only on an
optional basis.
3)Cannot award financial aid to a student athlete that exceeds
the cost of attendance that normally is incurred by students
enrolled in a comparable program at that institution or that
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exceeds the limitations established by Division I, whichever
is less.
4)Must include earnings from the student athlete's employment
during semester or term time to determine whether a full
grant-in-aid is reached and can only allow $2,000 in earnings
over a full grant-in-aid award, as defined.
Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960
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