Bill Text: CA SB1401 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: College Athlete Race and Gender Equity Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-19 - May 19 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB1401 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SB1401-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 25, 2022 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 16, 2022 |
Introduced by Senator Bradford |
February 18, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law
This bill would require institutions of higher education with sports in which 50% of the total sports revenue in the state exceeds the total aggregate grant-in-aid athletics scholarship amount provided to college athletes in the sport during the reporting year to pay an athlete
degree completion distribution to each qualifying college athlete based on a specified calculation. The bill would require an institution of higher education to deposit, on an annual basis, the athlete degree completion distribution into a qualifying college athlete’s Athlete Degree Completion Fund established by a designated third party that meets specified requirements. The bill would require the athlete degree completion distribution to be distributed by the designated third party, as specified, to each qualifying college athlete who would have access to up to $25,000 per annual distribution and would be entitled to the remaining athlete degree completion distribution if they complete an undergraduate baccalaureate degree within 7 years from when they enrolled at an institution of higher education.
This bill would require each institution of higher education to comply with Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972 as it applies to college athletics, to
suspend an athletic director from intercollegiate athletics responsibilities in the state for 3 years if Title IX compliance is not achieved on or before January 1, 2026, and maintained for at least 18 months in each 36-month period after January 1, 2026, and to preserve each athletic program’s college athletes’ educational opportunities and grant-in-aid athletic scholarship amounts, including by requiring program and athletic personnel salary cost-cutting options to be implemented before, or simultaneously with, any reduction in college athletes’ aggregate unduplicated participation numbers or grant-in-aid athletic scholarship amounts. To the extent the bill would impose additional obligations on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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 the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 67452.3 of the Education Code is repealed.An institution of higher education may establish a degree completion fund, in accordance with applicable rules and bylaws of the governing body of the institution and applicable rules and bylaws of any athletic association of which the institution is a member.