Bill Text: PA HB2077 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishing and mandating written disclosures to individuals being recruited as student athletes by Pennsylvania colleges and universities.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-11-12 - Referred to EDUCATION [HB2077 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2077-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2894
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2077 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY KORTZ, BRIGGS, BROWN, GERGELY, MAHONEY, McGEEHAN, MELIO AND SIPTROTH, NOVEMBER 12, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, NOVEMBER 12, 2009
AN ACT
Establishing and mandating written disclosures to individuals
being recruited as student athletes by Pennsylvania colleges
and universities.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Student
Athletes' Right-to-Know Act.
Section 2. General disclosures to athlete.
Commencing January 1, 2011, within one week of any personal
contact with a student athlete for purposes of recruiting the
student athlete for a collegiate interscholastic athletic
program, the collegiate athletic recruiter shall provide in
writing to the student athlete all of the following information:
(1) A description of the medical insurance policies that
affect student athletes, including, but not limited to, terms
of eligibility for medical insurance coverage, covered
conditions and events, medical premiums, copayments,
deductibles, maximum benefits and the process for obtaining
independent medical opinions.
(2) The total sum of medical payments, including, but
not limited to, deductibles and copayments, that the
postsecondary educational institution did not pay for sports-
related injuries incurred by members of each athletic team in
each of the last four years.
(3) Any scheduling conflict between the mandatory
classes in majors offered at the postsecondary educational
institution, and the schedule of the athletic team for which
the student athlete is being recruited, as well as the
athletic program's policy for how the conflict is resolved.
(4) The number of student athletes in each academic
major.
(5) The number of student athletes who changed majors
and the names of the original majors.
(6) Each athletic team's policy concerning the criteria
for the renewal or nonrenewal of an athletic scholarship,
including circumstances in which a student athlete 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.
(7) The average percent of decrease in the dollar amount
of a renewed one-year athletic scholarship for a temporarily
injured and a permanently injured student athlete on each
athletic team for the previous four years.
(8) The number and percentage of student athletes on
each athletic team whose scholarships were not renewed in
each of the previous four years.
(9) The number of and rate at which student athletes
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with remaining athletic eligibility did not return to each
athletic team in the previous four years.
(10) The number of and rate at which student athletes
from any athletic team with remaining athletic eligibility
transferred to another school.
(11) The number of student athletes from any athletic
team who were denied an intercollegiate transfer request in
the previous four year.
(12) The average length of time it took to grant an
intercollegiate transfer request for any student athlete from
any athletic team in the previous four years.
(13) The sum of expenses included in the cost of
attending the postsecondary educational institution that are
not included in a full grant-in-aid athletic scholarship for
the current year and previous three years.
(14) A summary of the intercollegiate athletic program's
use of funds that may be used toward assisting student
athletes with expenses that are not included in a full grant-
in-aid scholarship.
(15) The average monthly payment received for an on-
campus and off-campus full scholarship student athlete
enrolled in classes in each sport during the regular academic
and summer sessions in each of the last four years.
(16) The results of an anonymous annual student athlete
survey containing student athletes' opinions about the safety
of their workout environment, academic support and coaches.
(17) The number of rescinded written scholarship offers
for each athletic team in each of the previous four years.
(18) Institutional policies that may restrict the
athletic eligibility of a student athlete who wishes to
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transfer to another postsecondary educational institution.
(19) The number of full-scholarship student athletes on
each athletic team who enrolled in summer school in each of
the previous four years.
Section 3. Disclosures to athlete with verbal offer.
Commencing January 1, 2011, any scholarship offer shall be
made in writing within one week of a verbal offer and prior to a
student athlete signing an athletic scholarship agreement with a
postsecondary educational institution. The written offer shall
include at least all of the following information:
(1) Any specific academic qualifications that will
guarantee the student athlete's enrollment in the
postsecondary educational institution.
(2) A description of the medical insurance policies that
will affect the student athlete, including, but not limited
to, terms of eligibility for medical insurance coverage,
covered conditions and events, medical premiums, copayments,
deductibles, maximum benefits and the process for obtaining
independent medical opinions.
(3) Each athletic team's policy and standard practices
concerning the criteria for the renewal or nonrenewal of an
athletic scholarship, including circumstances in which a
student athlete 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.
(4) The number and percentage of student athletes on the
team whose scholarship was not renewed in each of the
previous four years.
(5) Which expenses, if any, will be paid for by an
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athletic grant or scholarship, including summer school
expenses.
(6) Expense items included in the cost of attendance
that will not be paid for by the postsecondary educational
institution, including summer school expenses.
(7) A summary of the intercollegiate athletic program's
use of funds that may be used toward assisting student
athletes with expenses that are not included in a full grant-
in-aid athletic scholarship.
(8) Which, if any, meals the intercollegiate athletic
program regularly makes available during the regular academic
year and during the summer.
(9) The average monthly deduction, if any, that is
deducted from a full-scholarship student athlete's payment to
pay for meals that the intercollegiate athletic program
regularly makes available during the regular academic year.
(10) The terms and the amount of any death benefit
provided by the postsecondary educational institution in case
of sports-related death.
(11) Whether or not an athletic scholarship offer will
expire.
Section 4. Applicability.
This act shall apply to athletic scholarship contracts
entered into after the effective date of this act.
Section 5. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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