Bill Text: CA SB206 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Collegiate athletics: student athlete compensation and representation.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-4)
Status: (Passed) 2019-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 383, Statutes of 2019. [SB206 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB206-Amended.html
Amended
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June 20, 2019 |
Amended
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May 17, 2019 |
Amended
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April 30, 2019 |
Amended
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Senate
April 10, 2019 |
Amended
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Senate
March 25, 2019 |
Amended
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Senate
March 11, 2019 |
Senate Bill | No. 206 |
Introduced by Senators Skinner and Bradford (Coauthors: Senators Durazo, Hueso, and Wilk) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Burke, Cunningham, Gipson, Grayson, Holden, Weber, and Wicks) |
February 04, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
(a)The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1)According to a 2012 study by the National College Players Association and Drexel University Sports Management Program, for the 2010–11 academic year, the average annual scholarship shortfall as a result of out-of-pocket expenses for each National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) full scholarship athlete was $3,285.
(2)The study concluded that 82 percent of full scholarship athletes who live on campus and 90 percent of full scholarship athletes who live off
campus live at or below the federal poverty level.
(3)The study found that, during the 2010–11 academic year, the fair market value of the labor of the average FBS football and men’s basketball player was approximately $137,357 and $289,829, respectively.
(4)According to the study, in 2009–10, the 10 FBS football players with the highest estimated fair market values had fair market values that ranged from $345,000 to $514,000, inclusive. All of these players were living below the federal poverty line with an average scholarship shortfall of $2,841. In 2010, their head coaches were paid an average of over $3,500,000 each, excluding bonuses.
(5)According to a 2014 report by the College Sport Research Institute
at the University of South Carolina, revenue-producing male athletes graduate at a rate of 17.5 percentage points below other male students.
(6)The National College Players Association and Drexel University Sports Management Program study found that, from 2011 to 2015, inclusive, FBS football and men’s basketball players forfeited an estimated $6,200,000,000.
(7)A significant portion of this harm occurs in California, where there are 24 colleges and universities participating in college athletics in Division I of the NCAA, seven of which have football programs in the FBS.
(8)Approximately 40 percent of NCAA Division I and Division II athletes say they do not have enough time to keep up with academics during the
athletic season, and about one-third report that athletics prevent them from taking desired classes.
(9)The NCAA limits the amount of time athletes can spend on athletics to 20 hours per week, but it found that college athletes spend 32 to 44 hours per week on their sport.
(10)More than 60 percent of California’s NCAA Division I and Division II colleges and universities have one or more athletic teams with graduation rates below 60 percent, and athletic conferences in California have among the worst academic gaps between regular students and football and men’s basketball players competing in Division I.
(11)California’s African American college athletes are overrepresented in revenue producing sports, and suffer the
lowest graduation rates.
(12)California’s postsecondary educational institutions that participate in intercollegiate athletics generate over seven hundred million dollars ($700,000,000) per year, which is revenue that would not exist without the efforts of college athletes.
(13)College athletes face repercussions for obtaining legal representation to protect their academic, physical, and financial well-being.