Bill Text: NY S00649 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

---

Bill Title: Enacts the student athlete bill of rights.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-02 - PRINT NUMBER 649A [S00649 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00649-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         649--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. KENNEDY, PANEPINTO -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Educa-
          tion -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance
          with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the student
          athlete  bill  of  rights;  and  providing  for  the  repeal  of  such
          provisions upon expiration thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited  as  the  "student
     2  athlete bill of rights".
     3    § 2. The Legislature finds and declares the following:
     4    1.  Meeting  the  educational  needs  of  student athletes should be a
     5  priority for intercollegiate athletic programs.
     6    2. New York's institutions of higher  education  that  participate  in
     7  Division I and Division II intercollegiate athletics collectively gener-
     8  ate  millions  of  dollars annually in media contracts, and this revenue
     9  would not exist without the efforts of student athletes.
    10    3.  Student  athletes  generate  large  revenues  for  many   athletic
    11  programs,  spend  approximately  forty  hours  per week participating in
    12  their respective sports, and suffer current and historically low  gradu-
    13  ation rates.
    14    4.  Providing  adequate  health  and  safety  protection  for  student
    15  athletes can help prevent serious injury and death.
    16    5. Current and former student athletes can be left to pay for  medical
    17  expenses  incurred  from injuries suffered while participating in inter-
    18  collegiate athletics.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03259-02-6