Bill Text: NY A07561 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to notification requirements when a college plans to dissolve any athletic team.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A07561 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07561-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7561--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 2, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to notification require- ments when a college plans to dissolve any athletic team The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6438-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 6438-a. Intercollegiate athletic team dissolution. Each college 4 shall develop a written policy regarding the dissolution of intercolle- 5 giate athletic teams that includes a protocol requiring written notice 6 to student athletes if the college plans to dissolve any intercollegiate 7 athletic team in the following academic year. Written notice shall be 8 provided at least one year from the start of the academic year in which 9 the intercollegiate athletics team will be dissolved. The protocol may 10 consider factors such as the mission of the sports program, the educa- 11 tional outcomes of sports participation, history of success of the team, 12 fan support, Title IX, donor impact, student-athlete diversity, finan- 13 cial viability/cost and the prevalence of local and regional competi- 14 tion. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11050-02-7
