BILL ANALYSIS �
SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Alan Lowenthal, Chair
2011-2012 Regular Session
BILL NO: AB 1743
AUTHOR: Campos
INTRODUCED: February 17, 2012
FISCAL COMM: No HEARING DATE: May 16, 2012
URGENCY: No CONSULTANT:Lynn Lorber
SUBJECT : Postsecondary education: Information about
athletic scholarships.
SUMMARY
This bill clarifies that existing law regarding the
provision of information about athletic scholarships
applies only to postsecondary educational institutions with
a physical campus and athletic facilities in California.
BACKGROUND
Current law:
1) Requires California colleges and universities that
offer athletic scholarships to provide the following
information on the institution's website:
a) The college's most recent cost of attendance
expenses;
b) The portion of these expenses prohibited, per the
National
Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) rules,
from inclusion in a
full grant-in-aid scholarship;
c) Whether the college provides athletic scholarships
for summer
school;
d) The average monthly scholarship payment received by
students
living on- and off-campus;
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e) Information regarding the college's and NCAA's
policies on
scholarship renewals, payment of
athletically-related medical expenses, and
athletic release for student athletes wishing to
transfer; and,
f) NCAA scholarship rules related to verbal offers and
National
Letters of Intent, as specified.
2) Requires a college or university that provides written
material regarding its athletic program to a student
athlete to include a direct link to the institution's
Internet Web page, where the student athlete shall be
able to access all of the information regarding the
institution's athletic scholarship program as
described above. (Education Code � 67365)
ANALYSIS
This bill clarifies that existing law regarding the
provision of information about athletic scholarships
applies only to postsecondary educational institutions with
a physical campus and athletic facilities in California.
Specifically, this bill defines "California postsecondary
educational institution" 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.
STAFF COMMENTS
1 Need for the bill . According to the author, "Prior
legislation provided that
all California postsecondary education institutions
that offer athletic scholarships are required to
provide information about athletic scholarships on
their websites. 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
requirement to post information about athletic
scholarships online. Since these schools do not have
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athletic teams operating in California, it is
impracticable to require them to provide athletic
scholarship information on their websites."
2 Exemption . This bill would exclude from the
existing requirement to provide information about
athletic scholarships any postsecondary educational
institution that does not have a physical campus and
athletic facilities located in California. Existing
law applies to California universities and colleges
that offer athletic scholarships. It appears
reasonable to exempt postsecondary educational
institutions that do not offer athletic scholarships
to students who attend a satellite campus or take
online courses of an out-of-state college but who do
offer athletic scholarships to students attending a
campus in another state. Is it possible that an
out-of-state college could offer an athletic
scholarship to a student attending a satellite campus
or online school in California to complete for the
college in another state? Staff recommends an
amendment to strike the contents of the bill and
instead clarify that current law applies to
postsecondary educational institutions that offer
athletic scholarships to students attending a
university or college in California.
SUPPORT
None on file.
OPPOSITION
None on file.