BILL NUMBER: AB 1743 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 25, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Campos
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
An act to amend Section 67365 of the Education Code, relating to
student athletes.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1743, as amended, Campos. Student athletes: scholarships.
Existing law requires a California postsecondary educational
institution that offers athletic scholarships , or that
provides, by any delivery method, written material regarding its
athletic program to a student athlete, to provide specified
information on its Internet Web site that describes, among other
things, the institution's athletic program's policies concerning
athletic scholarship issuance, renewal, release, and medical
expenses.
This bill would define a California postsecondary
educational institution for purposes of those provisions as a
postsecondary educational institution with a physical campus and
athletic facilities used to support one or more of the institution's
athletic programs that is located in the State of California
instead place that requirement on a California
postsecondary educational institution that offers athletic
scholarships to student athletes, as defined .
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 67365 of the Education Code is amended to read:
67365. (a) For purposes of this section, the following
definitions shall apply:
(1) "Athletic program" means any intercollegiate athletic program
from a California postsecondary educational institution that solicits
student athletes to apply, enroll, or attend the postsecondary
educational institution in order to have the student athlete
participate in intercollegiate sporting events, contests,
exhibitions, or programs at that institution.
(2) "California postsecondary educational institution" means a
postsecondary educational institution with a physical campus and
athletic facilities used to support one or more of the institution's
athletic programs that is located in the State of California.
(3)
(2) "Student athlete" means an individual who attends
an elementary, junior high, high school, or postsecondary educational
institution, and who participates in any interscholastic athletic
program in California, including an individual who receives
scholarship funds for his or her athletic participation and an
individual who does not receive scholarship funds for his or her
athletic participation.
(b) Commencing January 1, 2012, a California postsecondary
educational institution that offers athletic scholarships to
student athletes shall provide all of the following information
on its Internet Web site:
(1) All of the following athletic scholarship information:
(A) The most recent cost of attendance expenses as published by
the postsecondary educational institution's financial aid offices for
the academic year and for the summer year.
(B) The sum of expenses identified in subparagraph (A) that are
prohibited from inclusion in a full grant-in-aid athletic scholarship
pursuant to the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA)
rules and regulations.
(C) The policy of the postsecondary educational institution's
athletic program as to whether student athletes will receive athletic
scholarships for summer school, and, if so, whether these
scholarships are proportional to athletic scholarships received
during the regular academic school year.
(D) The average monthly full grant-in-aid athletic scholarship
payment received by student athletes who live on-campus and
off-campus, respectively, during the regular academic year and summer
school session.
(E) The following information relating to NCAA scholarship rules:
"Pursuant to NCAA rules, a verbal commitment is not binding on either
the student athlete or the institution. The National Letter of
Intent is a binding agreement between a prospective student athlete
and an institution in which the institution agrees to provide a
prospective student athlete who is admitted to the institution and is
eligible for financial aid under NCAA rules athletics aid for one
academic year in exchange for the prospective student athlete's
agreement to attend the institution for one academic year. The
National Letter of Intent must be accompanied by an institutional
financial aid agreement. If the prospective student athlete signs the
National Letter of Intent but does not enroll at that institution
for a full academic year, he or she may be subject to specific
penalties, including loss of a season of eligibility and a mandatory
residence requirement."
(2) All of the following athletic scholarship renewal information:
(A) The NCAA's policy on scholarship duration.
(B) The policy of the postsecondary educational institution's
athletic program concerning the renewal or nonrenewal of an athletic
scholarship, including circumstances in which a student athlete in
good standing suffers a temporary or permanent sports-related injury,
there is a coaching change, or a student athlete's athletic
performance is deemed to be below expectations.
(3) All of the following athletically related medical expenses
information:
(A) The NCAA's policy on whether athletic programs are mandated to
pay for athletically related medical expenses.
(B) The policy of the postsecondary educational institution's
athletic program on whether it will pay for student athletes'
athletically related medical expenses, including deductibles,
copayments, coinsurance, and whether the program will pay for
athletically related medical expenses that exceed any maximum
insurance coverage limits.
(C) The policy of the institution's athletic program concerning
who is required to pay for any required athletically related
insurance premiums for student athletes who do not have such
insurance.
(D) The duration of time the postsecondary educational institution'
s athletic program continues to pay for athletically related medical
expenses after a student athlete's athletic eligibility expires.
(E) Whether or not an athletic program's medical policy covers
expenses associated with attaining a second medical opinion for an
athletically related injury from a medical physician who is not
associated with the athletic program, and whether the athletic
program provides coverage for services received by
from such a physician.
(4) All of the following athletic release information:
(A) The NCAA policy on whether an athletic program may refuse to
grant an athletic release to a student athlete who wishes to transfer
to another postsecondary educational institution.
(B) The policy of the postsecondary educational institution's
athletic program concerning whether it may use any power to refuse to
grant an athletic release for a student athlete who wishes to
transfer to another postsecondary educational institution.
(c) Commencing January 1, 2012, a California postsecondary
educational institution that provides, by any delivery method,
written material regarding its athletic program to a student athlete
shall include a direct link to the institution's Internet Web site,
where the student athlete shall be able to access all of the
information regarding the institution's athletic scholarship program
as described in subdivision (b).