Bill Text: CA SB1349 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School athletics: information relating to competitive athletics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 258, Statutes of 2014. [SB1349 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1349-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1349	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Jackson
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Bonilla)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 221.9 to the Education Code, relating to
school athletics.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1349, as introduced, Jackson. School athletics: information
relating to competitive athletics.
   (1) Existing law, known as the Sex Equity in Education Act,
declares that it is the policy of the state that elementary and
secondary school classes and courses, including nonacademic and
elective classes and courses, be conducted without regard to the sex
of the pupil enrolled in those classes and courses. The act also
prohibits public funds from being used in connection with any
athletic program conducted under the auspices of a school district
governing board or any student organization within the district that
does not provide equal opportunity to both sexes for participation
and for use of facilities.
   This bill would express legislative findings and declarations
relating to the participation of girls and women in competitive
athletics. The bill would require, commencing with the 2015-16 school
year and every 2 years thereafter, each public elementary and
secondary school in the state that has pupils who participate in
competitive athletics, as defined, to report specified data to its
school district governing board. The bill would also require school
district governing boards to cause this information to be posted on
the school district's Internet Web site. Because this bill would
impose new duties on schools and school districts, it would
constitute a state-mandated local program.
   (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Female pupils receive substantial benefits from participating
in athletics, including physical benefits, psychological and
emotional health benefits, learning responsible social behavior, and
achieving greater academic success. The achievements of women in
athletics is demonstrated by their performances in the Olympic Games,
women's professional sports leagues, and other national and
international women's sporting events that receive public attention.
   (b) In 1912, only 2 percent of Olympic athletes were women; in
2012, 44 percent of Olympians were women.
   (c) Between 1972 and 2011, the number of girls competing in high
school sports jumped from under 295,000 to nearly 3,200,000. But
girls' opportunities still have not reached the level that boys were
at back when Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to the 1964
Civil Rights Act was enacted.
   (d) There are more women playing collegiate sports--about
200,000--than ever before. The number of female athletes at National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools has increased from
less than 30,000 to over 193,000 since 1972, but women still have
over 60,000 fewer participation opportunities than their male
counterparts.
   (e) Despite the fact that millions of women and girls are
competing, they are unlikely to see athletic role models of their own
gender in the media. Researchers from the University of California
and Purdue University completed a 20-year study of sports coverage
that shows the short shrift that women's sports receives compared to
men's on network news and ESPN SportsCenter: in 2009, women's sports
got only 1.6 percent of the airtime, down from 6.3 percent in 2004.
   (f) Unfortunately, Title IX has not managed to extend the social
and health benefits of sports to all girls equally. In 2008, a
national survey of pupils in grades 3 to 12, inclusive, by the Women'
s Sports Foundation found that 75 percent of Caucasian girls play
sports, compared to less than two-thirds of African American and
Hispanic girls, and about one-half of Asian girls. And, while boys
from immigrant families are well represented in youth sports, less
than one-half of the girls from those families are playing.
   (g) The gender gap is also worse in urban schools and among kids
from low-income families. These disparities in youth sports persist
at the collegiate level. African American women are underrepresented
in all sports except for Division I basketball and track and field,
and Latinas make up just 4 percent of the female athletes in the
NCAA.
  SEC. 2.  Section 221.9 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   221.9.  (a) Commencing with the 2015-16 school year and every two
years thereafter, each public elementary and secondary school in the
state that has pupils who participate in competitive athletics shall
report to its school district governing board all of the following
information:
   (1) The total enrollment of the school, classified by gender.
   (2) The number of pupils enrolled at the school who participate in
competitive athletics, classified by gender.
   (3) The number of boys' and girls' teams, classified by sport and
by competition level.
   (4) The names, genders, job titles, and employment status,
including, but not limited to, full-time, part-time, contract, or
volunteer, and the amount of compensation or stipend, if any, for all
of the following: the school's athletic director or equivalent, and
each coach and other athletic staff, including trainers and team
managers.
   (5) The coach-to-athlete ratio for each team.
   (6) For schools maintaining any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, all
of the following:
   (A) An accounting of the funding sources that are used to support
the school's athletics programs and the programs to which those funds
are allocated, including, but not necessarily limited to, state and
federal funding, fundraising or booster clubs, game admission and
concession receipts, cash or in-kind donations, and grants.
   (B) Any capital outlay expenditure made for any athletic program.
   (C) Expenditures for each athletic program, including, but not
necessarily limited to, travel expenses including transportation,
meal allowances and overnight accommodations, equipment, uniforms,
facilities, improvements to facilities, publicity expenses, awards,
banquets, and insurance.
   (D) A statement of benefits and services provided to each athletic
program, including, but not necessarily limited to, replacement
schedules for uniforms, practice and game schedules, locker rooms,
weight rooms, and practice, competitive, and training facilities.
   (b) The school district governing board shall cause the
information submitted by each school pursuant to subdivision (a) to
be made publicly available by being posted on the Internet Web site
of each school district.
   (c) The materials used by each school to compile the information
submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be retained at the school
for at least three years after the information is posted on the
Internet pursuant to subdivision (b).
   (d) As used in this section, "competitive athletics" includes, but
is not necessarily limited to, interscholastic and intramural
athletics.
  SEC. 3.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.