GA HB1406

Recruiters must provide Georgia student-athletes with detailed written disclosures within one week of initiating personal contact, covering 19 categories of information including medical insurance policies, scholarship renewal/nonrenewal rates, unpaid medical expenses for sports injuries, transfer request data, and academic major distributions for the previous four years.

Athletic scholarship offers must be made in writing within one week of any verbal offer and before the student-athlete signs a scholarship agreement, including 11 specified disclosures such as covered expenses, death benefits, meal deductions, and scholarship expiration terms.

Written scholarship offers must detail criteria for scholarship renewal or nonrenewal, including policies for cases of sports-related injury, coaching changes, or athletic performance deemed below expectations.

Disclosure requirements took effect beginning January 1, 2011, and do not apply retroactively to athletic scholarship contracts entered into before that date.

The act applies to recruiters targeting student-athletes residing in Georgia or attending Georgia postsecondary institutions, with "recruiter" broadly defined to include any person or entity attempting to induce a student-athlete's enrollment for intercollegiate athletic participation.