Chapter 2. General Provisions of California Education Code >> Division 5. >> Title 3. >> Part 40.3. >> Chapter 2.
For purposes of this part:
(a) "Athletic association" means any organization that is
responsible for governing intercollegiate athletic programs.
(b) "Athletic program" means an intercollegiate athletic program
at any institution of higher education within the meaning of
subdivision (d).
(c) "Graduation success rate" means the percentage of student
athletes who graduate from that institution of higher education
within six years of their initial enrollment, excluding outgoing
transfers in good academic standing with athletic eligibility
remaining, and including incoming transfers. The rate is to be
calculated by combining the rates of the four most recent classes
that are available in the exact manner as the rate is calculated
under National Collegiate Athletic Association rules.
(d) "Institution of higher education" means any campus of the
University of California or the California State University, or any
four-year private university located in California, that maintains an
intercollegiate athletic program.
(e) "Media rights" means the rights to media coverage of
intercollegiate athletics included in contracts that are entered into
by intercollegiate athletic conferences and television networks and
that generate monetary payments to individual institutions of higher
education.
(f) "Student athlete" means any college student who participates
in an intercollegiate athletic program of an institution of higher
education, and includes student athletes who participate in
basketball, football, and other intercollegiate sports.
Commencing with the 2013-14 academic year, an athletic
program shall comply with all of the following:
(a) (1) If an athletic program does not renew an athletic
scholarship of a student athlete who suffers an incapacitating injury
or illness resulting from his or her participation in the athletic
program, and the institution of higher education's medical staff
determines that he or she is medically ineligible to participate in
intercollegiate athletics, the institution of higher education shall
provide an equivalent scholarship that, combined with the total
duration of any previous athletic scholarship or scholarships
received by the student athlete, will be provided for a total of up
to five academic years or until the student athlete completes his or
her undergraduate degree, whichever period is shorter. Additional
years may be provided at the discretion of the institution of higher
education.
(2) If a student athlete takes a temporary leave of absence from
an institution of higher education, the duration of that leave of
absence shall not count against the five-year limit on eligibility
for an equivalent scholarship imposed by paragraph (1).
(3) An athletic program shall provide an equivalent scholarship to
a student athlete who was on an athletic scholarship and is in good
standing, but has exhausted his or her athletic eligibility, for up
to one year or until the student athlete completes his or her primary
undergraduate degree, whichever is shorter, except that an athletic
program with a graduation success rate that is above 60 percent,
disaggregated by team, shall not be subject to the requirements of
this paragraph.
(4) A student athlete whose athletic scholarship is not renewed
for cause by an athletic program shall receive no benefits under this
part, but may appeal this decision within the institution of higher
education attended by the student or within the athletic conference
or association of which that institution of higher education is a
member, as appropriate.
(b) Each athletic program shall conduct a financial and life
skills workshop for all of its first-year and third-year student
athletes at the beginning of the academic year. This workshop shall
include, but not be limited to, information concerning financial aid,
debt management, and a recommended budget for full- and
partial-scholarship student athletes living on or off campus during
the academic year and the summer term based on the current academic
year's cost of attendance. The workshop shall also include
information on time management skills necessary for success as a
student athlete, and academic resources available on campus.
(c) An institution of higher education shall grant a student
athlete the same rights as other students with regard to any and all
matters related to possible adverse or disciplinary actions,
including, but not necessarily limited to, actions involving
athletically related financial aid.
(d) An athletic program shall respond within seven business days
with an answer to a student athlete's written request to transfer to
another institution of higher education.
(e) An institution of higher education that receives, as an
average, less than ten million dollars ($10,000,000) in annual income
derived from media rights for intercollegiate athletics shall not be
subject to the requirements of this section.
(f) An institution of higher education to which this section
applies shall rely exclusively on revenue derived from media rights
for intercollegiate athletics to defray any costs accrued under this
section.
(a) (1) Unless a student athlete declines the payment of
premiums, an athletic program shall be responsible for paying the
premiums of each of its student athletes whose household has an
income and asset level that does not exceed the level for Cal Grant A
recipients set forth in Section 69432.7 for insurance covering
claims resulting from their participation in the athletic program.
(2) An athletic program shall be responsible for paying the
insurance deductible amount applicable to the claim of any student
athlete who suffers an injury resulting from his or her participation
in the athletic program and makes a claim relating to that injury.
(3) If a student athlete suffers an injury resulting from his or
her participation in the athletic program that requires ongoing
medical treatment, the athletic program shall provide, for a minimum
of two years following the student athlete's graduation or separation
from the institution of higher education, one of the following:
(A) The necessary medical treatment.
(B) Health insurance that covers the injury and the resulting
deductible amounts.
(4) This subdivision shall not apply to preexisting medical
conditions that predate the student athlete's participation in the
athletic program.
(b) An athletic program shall adopt and implement guidelines to
prevent, assess, and treat sports-related concussions and
dehydration. In addition, an athletic program shall adopt and
implement exercise and supervision guidelines for any student athlete
identified with potentially life-threatening health conditions who
participates in an athletic program.
(c) An institution of higher education that receives, as an
average, less than ten million dollars ($10,000,000) in annual income
derived from media rights for intercollegiate athletics shall not be
subject to the requirements of this section.
(d) An institution of higher education to which this section
applies shall rely exclusively on revenue derived from media rights
for intercollegiate athletics to defray any costs accrued under this
section.
This part shall become inoperative on January 1, 2021.