BILL ANALYSIS �
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 1349 (Jackson)
As Amended July 1, 1014
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :29-7
ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS 5-1 EDUCATION 7-0
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|Ayes:|Ian Calderon, Bloom, |Ayes:|Buchanan, Olsen, Ch�vez, |
| |Brown, Gomez, Levine | |Gonzalez, Nazarian, |
| | | |Weber, Williams |
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|Nays:|Wilk | | |
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SUMMARY : Requires public schools to annually report specific
information regarding participation in competitive athletics, beginning
with the 2015-16 school year. Specifically, this bill :
1)Requires, commencing with the 2015-16 school year and every year
thereafter, each public elementary and secondary school in the state
that offers competitive athletics to publicly make 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 pupils enrolled at the school who participate in
competitive athletics, classified by gender;
c) The number of boys' and girls' teams, classified by sport and by
competition level; and
d) The specified data shall reflect the total number of players on
a team roster on the official first day of competition.
2)Provides that the school shall post the specified information on the
school's Internet Web site.
3)Requires the materials used by a school to compile the information
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specified in Education Code Section 221.9(a) shall be retained by the
school for at least three years after the information is posted on the
Internet.
4)Defines "competitive athletics" to mean sports where the activity has
coaches, a governing organization, and practices, and competes during
a defined season, and has competition as its primary goal.
5)Makes various legislative findings and declarations.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, minor
and absorbable costs.
COMMENTS :
1)Author and supporter's statement of need for legislation:
participation data is needed to achieve the goal of gender equity in
sports. According to the author, "Girls, particularly girls of color,
receive far fewer opportunities to play sports than boys, as well as
inferior treatment in areas such as equipment, facilities, coaching,
and publicity. Although data on gender equity in athletics is not as
readily available at the elementary and high school level as it is at
the college level, the available information indicates that
discrimination against girls and young women in athletics is every bit
as much of a problem in elementary and secondary schools as it is in
colleges. SB 1349 begins shining the light on opportunities, or lack
thereof, for girls to participate in grade and high school athletics."
The author concludes, "We don't have a lot of facts and statistics
regarding compliance with Title IX in K-12 because there is no
requirement to report. NCAA [National Collegiate Athletic
Association] requires reporting so we do have statistics at the
college level; SB 1349 would make similar data available at the K-12
level."
The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center supports the bill, based
in part on their belief that "participating in sports has a profound
and lasting positive effect on the future of girls. Studies show that
high school girls involved in team sports are significantly more
likely to graduate from high school and are more likely to be
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successful in the workplace. This is especially true for low-income
girls and girls of color."
American Association of University Women - California, also writes in
support to say, "Girls' participation in athletics in elementary and
high school has long been under represented. Participation in school
sports, in addition to its social and health benefits, provides a
greater opportunity for Californian girls to compete for collegiate
athletic scholarships, reducing the financial burden of higher
education and providing them a more visible field on which to perform,
for those who would go on to play sports professionally."
There is no opposition on file.
2)Title IX and state enforcement are both dependent on sparse data. The
federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for enforcing
Title IX, through OCR's responsibility to ensure that institutions
which receive federal education funds comply with the law. The
principal enforcement activity is the investigation and resolution of
complaints filed by people a violation of Title IX. Current law does
not require any reporting of measures of compliance with Title IX by
K-12 schools.
California law does not require any reporting of measures of
compliance with Title IX by K-12 schools either, however AB 2295
(Oropeza), Chapter 1060, Statutes of 2002, contained uncodified
language that required the California Department of Education and the
California Postsecondary Education Commission to contract jointly for
a one-time report on female participation in athletics. In 2003, the
RMC Research Corporation's independent report, Title IX Athletics
Compliance at California's Public High Schools, Community Colleges,
and Universities, revealed that of the 125 high only 26% were in
compliance with Title IX based on proportionality, defined as having
participation rates that were within five percentage points of the
enrollment rates for each gender. One of the recommendations of the
report was to require high schools to report athletics data annually
and to ensure a monitoring process for Title IX.
Analysis Prepared by : Dana Mitchell / A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. / (916)
319-3450 FN: 0004205
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