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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 735
Author: Ridley-Thomas (D)
Amended: 1/4/16 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 9-0, 6/29/16
AYES: Liu, Block, Hancock, Huff, Leyva, Mendoza, Monning, Pan,
Vidak
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 78-0, 1/27/16 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT: Postsecondary education: Student Athlete Bill of
Rights
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill eliminates the January 1, 2021 sunset on the
Student Athlete Bill of Rights.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1)Prohibits any person from giving, offering, promising or
attempting to give money or other item of value to a student
athlete or member of the athlete's immediate family to induce,
encourage or reward a student athlete's application,
enrollment or attendance at a public or private institution of
higher education (IHE) to participate in intercollegiate
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sporting activities. (Education Code § 67360)
2)Requires California postsecondary educational institutions
that offer athletic scholarships to provide specific
information on its Web site, such as the costs of attendance
that are prohibited from inclusion in a full grant-in-aid
athletic scholarship, National Collegiate Athletic Association
policy on scholarship duration, the most recent cost of
attendance, the institution's policy on athletically related
medical expenses, and athletic release information. (EC §
67365)
Student Athlete Bill of Rights
3)Applies the following to an IHE that receives, as an average,
at least $10 million in annual income from media rights for
intercollegiate athletics. (EC § 67452)
4)Requires an IHE, if an athletic program does not renew an
athletic scholarship of a student athlete who suffers an
incapacitating injury or illness resulting from participating
in the athletic program and is determined to be medically
ineligible, to provide an equivalent scholarship, as
specified. (EC § 67452)
5)Requires an athletic program to provide an equivalent
scholarship to a student athlete who was on an athletic
scholarship and is in good standing but has exhausted his or
her athletic eligibility, for up to one year. (EC § 67452)
6)Requires each athletic program to be responsible for paying
the premiums of each of its student athletes whose household
has an income and asset level at or below the level for Cal
Grant A recipients for insurance covering claims resulting
from their participation in the athletic program. (EC §
67453)
7)Requires an athletic program to be responsible for paying the
insurance deductible for a claim of any student athlete who
suffers an injury resulting from participation in the athletic
program. (EC § 67453)
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8)Requires an athletic program, if a student suffers an injury
resulting from participation in the athletic program that
requires ongoing medical treatment, to provide for at least
two years following the student's graduation or separation
from the IHE either the necessary medical treatment or health
insurance that covers the injury and resulting deductibles.
(EC § 67453)
This bill eliminates the January 1, 2021 sunset on the Student
Athlete Bill of Rights, thereby extending these rights
indefinitely.
Comments
Only affects four universities. Based on annual revenues from
media rights, the Student Athlete Bill of Rights currently only
applies to four IHEs: the University of California at Berkeley
and Los Angeles, Stanford University, and the University of
Southern California. None of these institutions have expressed
opposition to removing the sunset and making the Student Athlete
Bill of Rights permanent.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified8/1/16)
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified8/1/16)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 78-0, 1/27/16
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AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang,
Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle,
Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina
Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez,
Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden,
Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder,
Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez,
Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson,
Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago,
Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber,
Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Mathis
Prepared by: Lynn Lorber / ED. / (916) 651-4105
8/3/16 18:43:12
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