What's happening
The bill requires colleges to create a written policy and give student athletes at least one year's notice before dissolving any athletic team.
Why it matters
Gives student athletes greater stability and time to plan. by ensuring they have at least a full year’s notice before their team is dissolved, allowing them to make informed decisions about their athletic and academic futures (such as transferring or adjusting scholarships).
Requires colleges to transparently document their team elimination process. in a written policy, which can help prevent abrupt, poorly explained, or arbitrary decisions about athletic teams.
Mandates consideration of multiple factors (like Title IX, team success, fan support, finances, and diversity). before dissolving a team, encouraging more thoughtful, equitable, and holistic decision-making by college administrations.
Could impact donor relations and alumni engagement. , as the process for dissolving teams must now take into account donor impact and community interest, potentially reducing backlash and fostering better long-term relationships.
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Who cares
College administrators
Each college would have to develop a written policy for dissolving intercollegiate athletic teams, including a protocol for notifying student athletes.
Student athletes
They would receive written notice at least one year before the start of the academic year in which their team would be dissolved.
College athletic departments
The dissolution protocol could consider team success, financial viability, educational outcomes and the availability of local and regional competition.
College sports donors and Title IX advocates
The bill expressly allows colleges to consider donor impact and Title IX in their team-dissolution protocols.
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Notify Athletes Before Cutting Teams
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Sponsors
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History
- Referred to ways and means
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 7561a
- Amend and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Notify Athletes Before Cutting Teams
In Senate Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Kenneth P. LaValle
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7561--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 2, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to notification requirements when a college plans to dissolve any athletic team
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6438-a to read as follows:
§ 6438-a. Intercollegiate athletic team dissolution. Each college shall develop a written policy regarding the dissolution of intercollegiate athletic teams that includes a protocol requiring written notice to student athletes if the college plans to dissolve any intercollegiate athletic team in the following academic year. Written notice shall be provided at least one year from the start of the academic year in which the intercollegiate athletics team will be dissolved. The protocol may consider factors such as the mission of the sports program, the educational outcomes of sports participation, history of success of the team, fan support, Title IX, donor impact, student-athlete diversity, financial viability/cost and the prevalence of local and regional competition.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11050-02-7
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