Bill Text: CT SB00205 | 2013 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Scholarships For Student Athletes At Public Institutions Of Higher Education.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-14 - Referred to Joint Committee on Higher Education and Employment Advancement [SB00205 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-SB00205-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 205
January Session, 2013		LCO No. 4602
		*04602SB00205HED*
Referred to Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT ADVANCEMENT
Introduced by:
(HED)

AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENT ATHLETES AT PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2013) A public institution of higher education that receives, through the sale of media rights, revenue in an amount of not less than five million dollars per year shall use such revenue to provide academic scholarships to any student athlete (1) whose athletic scholarship is not renewed after the student athlete suffers an incapacitating injury or illness resulting from participation in the institution's interscholastic athletic program, or (2) who has exhausted his or her National Collegiate Athletic Association athletic eligibility, but is still in good academic standing and pursuing a degree.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2013	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To increase graduation rates of student athletes at public institutions of higher education.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

Co-Sponsors:

SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

S.B. 205