Bill Text: CA AB2079 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Student athletes: scholarships.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 592, Statutes of 2010. [AB2079 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2079-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2079	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Torlakson and Davis

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act relating to student athletes.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2079, as introduced, Torlakson. Student athletes: recruiting.
   Existing law prohibits any person from giving, offering,
promising, or attempting to give any money or any other thing of
value to any particular student athlete or member of the immediate
family of the student athlete for purposes of inducing or encouraging
the student athlete's application, enrollment, or attendance at a
public or private institution of postsecondary education in order to
have the athlete participate in intercollegiate sporting events,
contests, exhibitions, or programs at that institution, except in
accordance with the bylaws of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association, as specified.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to student athlete recruiting.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to student athlete recruiting.