Bill Text: CA AB2079 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Student athletes: scholarships.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 592, Statutes of 2010. [AB2079 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2079-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2079	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 24, 2010
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 26, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 15, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 28, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Torlakson and Davis

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to add Section 67365 to the Education Code, relating to
student athletes.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2079, Torlakson. Student athletes: scholarships.
   Existing law prohibits any person from giving, offering,
promising, or attempting to give any money or any other thing of
value to any particular student athlete or member of the immediate
family of the student athlete for purposes of inducing or encouraging
the student athlete's application, enrollment, or attendance at a
public or private institution of postsecondary education in order to
have the athlete participate in intercollegiate sporting events,
contests, exhibitions, or programs at that institution, except in
accordance with the bylaws of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association, as specified.
    This bill, commencing January 1, 2012, would require a California
postsecondary educational institution that offers athletic
scholarships, or that provides, by any delivery method, written
material regarding its athletic program to a student athlete, to
provide specified information on its Internet Web site that
describes, among other things, the institution's athletic program's
policies concerning athletic scholarship issuance, renewal, release,
and medical expenses.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 67365 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   67365.  (a) For purposes of this section, the following
definitions shall apply:
   (1) "Athletic program" means any intercollegiate athletic program
from a postsecondary educational institution in the State of
California that solicits student athletes to apply, enroll, or attend
the postsecondary educational institution in order to have the
student athlete participate in intercollegiate sporting events,
contests, exhibitions, or programs at that institution.
   (2) "Student athlete" means an individual who attends an
elementary, junior high, high school, or postsecondary educational
institution, and who participates in any interscholastic athletic
program in California, including an individual who receives
scholarship funds for his or her athletic participation and an
individual who does not receive scholarship funds for his or her
athletic participation.
   (b) Commencing January 1, 2012, a California postsecondary
educational institution that offers athletic scholarships shall
provide all of the following information on its Internet Web site:
   (1) All of the following athletic scholarship information:
   (A) The most recent cost of attendance expenses as published by
the postsecondary educational institution's financial aid offices for
the academic year and for the summer year.
   (B) The sum of expenses identified in subparagraph (A) that are
prohibited from inclusion in a full grant-in-aid athletic scholarship
pursuant to the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA)
rules and regulations.
   (C) The policy of the postsecondary educational institution's
athletic program as to whether student athletes will receive athletic
scholarships for summer school, and, if so, whether these
scholarships are proportional to athletic scholarships received
during the regular academic school year.
   (D) The average monthly full grant-in-aid athletic scholarship
payment received by student athletes who live on-campus and
off-campus, respectively, during the regular academic year and summer
school session.
   (E) The following information relating to NCAA scholarship rules:
"Pursuant to NCAA rules, a verbal commitment is not binding on either
the student athlete or the institution. The National Letter of
Intent is a binding agreement between a prospective student athlete
and an institution in which the institution agrees to provide a
prospective student athlete who is admitted to the institution and is
eligible for financial aid under NCAA rules athletics aid for one
academic year in exchange for the prospective student athlete's
agreement to attend the institution for one academic year. The
National Letter of Intent must be accompanied by an institutional
financial aid agreement. If the prospective student athlete signs the
National Letter of Intent but does not enroll at that institution
for a full academic year, he or she may be subject to specific
penalties, including loss of a season of eligibility and a mandatory
residence requirement."
   (2) All of the following athletic scholarship renewal information:

   (A) The NCAA's policy on scholarship duration.
   (B) The policy of the postsecondary educational institution's
athletic program concerning the renewal or nonrenewal of an athletic
scholarship, including circumstances in which a student athlete in
good standing suffers a temporary or permanent sports-related injury,
there is a coaching change, or a student athlete's athletic
performance is deemed to be below expectations.
   (3) All of the following athletically related medical expenses
information:
   (A) The NCAA's policy on whether athletic programs are mandated to
pay for athletically related medical expenses.
   (B) The policy of the postsecondary educational institution's
athletic program on whether it will pay for student athletes'
athletically related medical expenses, including deductibles, copays,
coinsurance, and whether the program will pay for athletically
related medical expenses that exceed any maximum insurance coverage
limits.
   (C) The policy of the institution's athletic program concerning
who is required to pay for any required athletically related
insurance premiums for student athletes who do not have such
insurance.
   (D) The duration of time the postsecondary educational institution'
s athletic program continues to pay for athletically related medical
expenses after a student athlete's athletic eligibility expires.
   (E) Whether or not an athletic program's medical policy covers
expenses associated with attaining a second medical opinion for an
athletically related injury from a medical physician who is not
associated with the athletic program, and whether the athletic
program provides coverage for services received by such a physician.
   (4) All of the following athletic release information:
   (A) The NCAA policy on whether an athletic program may refuse to
grant an athletic release to a student athlete who wishes to transfer
to another postsecondary educational institution.
   (B) The policy of the postsecondary educational institution's
athletic program concerning whether it may use any power to refuse to
grant an athletic release for a student athlete who wishes to
transfer to another postsecondary educational institution.
   (c) Commencing January 1, 2012, a postsecondary educational
institution that provides, by any delivery method, written material
regarding its athletic program to a student athlete shall 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 in
subdivision (b).