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                                    THIRD READING


          Bill No:  SB 1349
          Author:   Jackson (D), et al.
          Amended:  5/28/14
          Vote:     21

           
           SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE  :  7-1, 4/2/14
          AYES:  Liu, Wyland, Correa, Galgiani, Hancock, Hueso, Monning
          NOES:  Huff
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Block

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE  :  5-2, 5/23/14
          AYES:  De León, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
          NOES:  Walters, Gaines


           SUBJECT  :    Report on competitive athletics

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill requires public schools to make publically  
          available specific information regarding pupil participation in  
          competitive athletics, beginning with the 2015-16 school year  
          and annually thereafter.  This bill also makes legislative  
          findings and declarations relative to gender equity in  
          athletics.

           Senate Floor Amendments  of 5/28/14 delete the requirement that  
          the State Auditor conduct audits for compliance with Title IX.

           ANALYSIS  :    Existing federal law provides that, in part, "no  
          person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be  
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          excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be  
          subjected to discrimination under any educational program of  
          activity receiving Federal financial assistance."  In order to  
          be in compliance with federal Title IX, a school must show  
          compliance with one of these three parts.  The federal tests  
          are:

          1.Athletic participation of women and girls is proportionate to  
            enrollment.

          2.The school has a history and continuing practice of program  
            expansion for women or girls.

          3.The school is fully meeting female athletes' interests and  
            abilities in its present athletic program.  (Title IX to the  
            1964 Civil Rights Act)

          Enforcement of compliance is initiated upon the filing of a  
          complaint alleging a violation of federal Title IX.

          Existing state law establishes standards virtually identical to  
          those of federal Title IX, with one modification:  in Test 2,  
          "history" is defined to mean the past two years.  

          Title IX applies to all aspects of educational opportunities,  
          not just athletics.

          This bill:

          1.Requires, beginning with the 2015-16 school year, each public  
            school with students who participate in competitive athletics  
            to make publically available at the end of the school year,  
            all of the following information:

             A.   The total enrollment of the school, classified by  
               gender.

             B.   The number of students who participate in competitive  
               athletics, classified by gender.

             C.   The number of boys' and girls' teams, classified by  
               sport and by competition level.

          1.Requires schools to post the data on their respective Internet  

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            Web site and requires the data to be retained at the school  
            for at least three years after the data is posted on the  
            district's Web site.

          2.Defines "competitive athletics" as sports where the activity  
            has coaches, a governing organization, and practices, and  
            competes during a defined season, and has competition as its  
            primary goal.

          3.States legislative findings and declarations relative to  
            gender equity in athletics.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  Yes    
          Local:  No

          According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, as it relates  
          to reporting and posting, there are minor and absorbable costs  
          for individual schools to report athletics program information  
          to their respective Internet Web site.

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  5/28/14)

          ACLU
          American Association of University Women
          California Women's Law Center
          Employment Law Center-Legal Aid Society
          Equal Rights Advocates
          Kinder Care
          Knowledge Universe


          PQ:d  5/28/14   Senate Floor Analyses 

                           SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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