Sponsored by:
Assemblyman MICHAEL VENEZIA
District 34 (Essex)
Assemblywoman CARMEN THERESA MORALES
District 34 (Essex)
Assemblyman BENJIE E. WIMBERLY
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen Miller, Hutchison, Assemblywoman Park and Assemblyman Sampson
SYNOPSIS
Requires public institution of higher education to provide alternative scholarship to student-athlete who loses athletic scholarship due to injury.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning scholarships for student-athletes enrolled in public institutions of higher education and supplementing chapter 62 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. If a public institution of higher education rescinds or does not renew an athletic scholarship previously awarded by the institution to a student-athlete due to an incapacitating injury or illness, the institution shall provide the student-athlete with a scholarship equal in value to the athletic scholarship for the remainder of the students enrollment in an undergraduate degree program at the institution, or for a maximum of five academic years, inclusive of the duration of the athletic scholarship, whichever is shorter.
b. As used in this section:
Incapacitating injury or illness means an injury or illness directly related to the student-athletes participation in intercollegiate athletics at a public institution of higher education that has been determined by the institutions medical staff to make the student-athlete medically ineligible to continue participation in intercollegiate athletics.
Student-athlete means an undergraduate student who participates in intercollegiate athletics at a public institution of higher education.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires a public institution of higher education to provide an alternative scholarship to a student-athlete who loses an athletic scholarship due to an injury.
If a public institution of higher education rescinds or does not renew an athletic scholarship previously awarded by the institution to a student-athlete due to an incapacitating injury or illness, the bill requires the institution to provide the student-athlete with a scholarship equal in value to the athletic scholarship for the remainder of the students enrollment in an undergraduate degree program at the institution, or for a maximum of five academic years, inclusive of the duration of the athletic scholarship, whichever is shorter.
The bill defines incapacitating injury or illness to mean an injury or illness directly related to the student-athletes participation in an intercollegiate athletic program at a public institution of higher education that has been determined by the institutions medical staff to make the student-athlete medically ineligible to continue participation in intercollegiate athletics.