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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

96

Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson

February 16, 2024

An act to add Section 33353.1 to the Education Code, relating to interscholastic athletics.

Vote: majority   Appropriation: no   Fiscal committee: no   Local program: no

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

Existing law describes the California Interscholastic Federation as a voluntary organization that consists of school and school-related personnel with responsibility for administering interscholastic athletic activities in secondary schools, and sets forth the Legislature’s intent regarding the California Interscholastic Federation’s implementation of certain policies.

This bill would require the California Interscholastic Federation, Federation and its sections, whenever it imposes a sanction is imposed on a member school or on an interscholastic team of a member school, to post on its respective internet website the name of the member school, the interscholastic team that has been sanctioned, if any, the violation that has occasioned the sanction, and a description of the sanction being imposed.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 33353.1 is added to the Education Code, to read:

33353.1.

If the California Interscholastic Federation imposes or one of its sections imposes a sanction on a member school or on an interscholastic team of a member school, it the California Interscholastic Federation or the section that imposes the sanction shall post on its respective internet website the name of the member school, the interscholastic team that has been sanctioned, if any, the violation that has occasioned the sanction, and a description of the sanction being imposed.