Assembly Bill A8219

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Enacts the student athlete bill of rights

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A8219 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6383
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §679-f, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A5576, S649
2017-2018: A2834

2013-A8219 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the student athlete bill of rights.

2013-A8219 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  8219

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            October 24, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. SEPULVEDA, COLTON, ROBERTS, CLARK, ROSA -- read
  once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

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:

  Section  1.  This  act shall be known and may be cited as the "student
athlete bill of rights".
  S 2. The Legislature finds and declares the following:
  1. Meeting the educational needs  of  student  athletes  should  be  a
priority for intercollegiate athletic programs.
  2.  New  York's  institutions  of higher education that participate in
Division I and Division II intercollegiate athletics collectively gener-
ate millions of dollars annually in media contracts,  and  this  revenue
would not exist without the efforts of student athletes.
  3.   Student  athletes  generate  large  revenues  for  many  athletic
programs, spend approximately forty  hours  per  week  participating  in
their  respective sports, and suffer current and historically low gradu-
ation rates.
  4.  Providing  adequate  health  and  safety  protection  for  student
athletes can help prevent serious injury and death.
  5.  Current and former student athletes can be left to pay for medical
expenses incurred from injuries suffered while participating  in  inter-
collegiate athletics.
  6.  Institutions  of  higher  education  should  provide their student
athletes with the same due process protection afforded to  students  who
do not participate in athletics.
  7. Athletic programs in this state are subject to federal gender equi-
ty  requirements  under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20
U.S.C. Sec. 1681 et seq.).

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11713-01-3
              

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