BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 1743 Page 1 CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS AB 1743 (Campos) As Amended May 25, 2012 Majority vote ----------------------------------------------------------------- |ASSEMBLY: |74-1 |(April 12, |SENATE: |37-0 |(May 30, 2012) | | | |2012) | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED. SUMMARY : Clarifies that existing law regarding the provision of information about athletic scholarships to student athletes applies only to postsecondary educational institutions with a physical campus and athletic facilities in California. The Senate amendments are technical and clarifying. AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill was substantially similar to the current version. FISCAL EFFECT : This bill is keyed non-fiscal by the Legislative Counsel. COMMENTS : Existing law, established by AB 2079 (Torlakson), Chapter 592, Statutes of 2010, requires all California postsecondary educational institutions that offer athletic scholarships to provide scholarship information on their Web sites, in order to ensure that the recruitment process and subsequent scholarship agreements are transparent for both students and parents. According to the author, postsecondary schools with a primary campus in another state that have satellite campuses in California and/or online classes offered in California are included within the meaning of "California postsecondary educational institutions" under the prior legislation. Accordingly, these off-campus facilities are required to comply with the Web site scholarship information requirement. Since these schools do not have athletic teams operating in California it is impracticable to require them to provide athletic scholarship information on their Web sites. This new definition would exclude any postsecondary school that AB 1743 Page 2 has an athletics program at an institution in another state but offers only online courses in California, including Ashford University in Iowa (which is owned by California-based Bridgepoint Education, Inc.), the sponsor of this bill. Further, Ashford University participates in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, not National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), so posting NCAA scholarship information is not relevant for its students. Analysis prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916) 319-3960 FN: 0004021