BILL NUMBER: SB 1525	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act relating to intercollegiate athletics.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1525, as introduced, Padilla. Intercollegiate athletics:
academic and medical expenses of student-athletes: Title IX
compliance.
   Existing law provides for a system of postsecondary education in
this state. This system includes 4 segments: the University of
California, administered by the Regents of the University of
California; the California State University, administered by the
Trustees of the California State University; the California Community
Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges; and independent institutions of higher education.

   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would ensure that the academic and medical expenses
of student-athletes who are injured and no longer able to compete on
behalf of California's postsecondary educational institutions are
fully covered and would ensure that the state's postsecondary
educational institutions comply with the gender equity requirements
of a specified provision of federal law.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would accomplish both of the following:
   (a) Ensure that the academic and medical expenses of
student-athletes who are injured and no longer able to compete on
behalf of California's postsecondary educational institutions are
fully covered.
   (b) Ensure that the state's postsecondary educational institutions
fully comply with the gender equity requirements of Title IX of the
Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1681 et seq.).