Senate Concurrent Resolution 79 Summary

• Directs the Department of Education and Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association to create regulations allowing high school coaches to provide out-of-season instruction to student athletes they currently coach, with safeguards against unethical conduct.

• Requires regulations to address no-contact periods, permissible programs (such as AAU, ODP, USAV, USATF), compensation for coaching, and limits on the percentage of returning athletes allowed on non-school teams.

• Mandates specific provisions governing when coaches may work with returning student athletes at clinics, lessons, camps, and non-school team programs, including maximum contact time and player limits.

• Identifies the current State Public Integrity Commission policy that prohibits coaches from providing paid out-of-season instruction to their school's varsity or sub-varsity team members.

• Requires the Department of Education to publish proposed regulations no later than October 1, 2018.