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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 1349
Author: Jackson (D), et al.
Amended: 7/1/14
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 Le�n, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NOES: Walters, Gaines
SENATE FLOOR : 29-7, 5/29/14
AYES: Anderson, Beall, Berryhill, Block, Cannella, Corbett,
Correa, De Le�n, DeSaulnier, Evans, Galgiani, Hancock,
Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Jackson, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Mitchell,
Monning, Padilla, Pavley, Roth, Steinberg, Torres, Vidak,
Wolk, Wyland
NOES: Fuller, Gaines, Huff, Knight, Morrell, Nielsen, Walters
NO VOTE RECORDED: Calderon, Lara, Wright, Yee
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 63-10, 8/7/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Report on competitive athletics
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires public schools, including charter
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schools, to make public 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.
Assembly Amendments require the school to make the information
publicly available, as specified, and add language to include
charter schools.
ANALYSIS : Existing federal law provides that, in part, "no
person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be
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, including charter schools, with students who
participate in competitive athletics to make publically
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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 that the school make the above information publicly
available as follows:
A. If the school maintains an Internet Web site, it must
post the information on the school's Internet Web site.
B. If the school does not maintain an Internet Web site, it
must submit the information to its school district or, for
a charter school, to its charter operator, and they are
required to post the information on its Internet Web site,
disaggregated by schoolsite.
1.Requires schools to post the data on their respective Internet
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.: No Local:
No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/8/14)
ACLU
American Association of University Women
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California Women's Law Center
Employment Law Center-Legal Aid Society
Equal Rights Advocates
Kinder Care
Knowledge Universe
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 63-10, 8/7/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Ammiano, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla,
Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau,
Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson,
Eggman, Fong, Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Hall, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones-Sawyer,
Levine, Linder, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Medina, Mullin,
Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Perea, John A.
P�rez, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber,
Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NOES: Allen, Dahle, Donnelly, Beth Gaines, Grove, Hagman,
Harkey, Jones, Mansoor, Wagner
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bigelow, Fox, Logue, Melendez, Patterson,
Waldron, Vacancy
PQ:dk 8/8/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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