BILL NUMBER: SB 1525INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Padilla FEBRUARY 24, 2012 An act relating to intercollegiate athletics. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1525, as introduced, Padilla. Intercollegiate athletics: academic and medical expenses of student-athletes: Title IX compliance. Existing law provides for a system of postsecondary education in this state. This system includes 4 segments: the University of California, administered by the Regents of the University of California; the California State University, administered by the Trustees of the California State University; the California Community Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges; and independent institutions of higher education. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that the academic and medical expenses of student-athletes who are injured and no longer able to compete on behalf of California's postsecondary educational institutions are fully covered and would ensure that the state's postsecondary educational institutions comply with the gender equity requirements of a specified provision of federal law. 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 that would accomplish both of the following: (a) Ensure that the academic and medical expenses of student-athletes who are injured and no longer able to compete on behalf of California's postsecondary educational institutions are fully covered. (b) Ensure that the state's postsecondary educational institutions fully comply with the gender equity requirements of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1681 et seq.).