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NJ S3676
Bill
Status
9/30/2024
Primary Sponsor
Kristin Corrado
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AI Summary
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Public institutions of higher education must provide an alternative scholarship to student-athletes whose athletic scholarships are rescinded or not renewed due to an incapacitating injury or illness
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The replacement scholarship must equal the value of the original athletic scholarship and continue for the remainder of the student's undergraduate enrollment, up to a maximum of five academic years total (including time on athletic scholarship)
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Incapacitating injury or illness is defined as one directly related to participation in intercollegiate athletics that the institution's medical staff determines makes the student medically ineligible to continue competing
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The bill applies only to undergraduate students at New Jersey public colleges and universities who participate in intercollegiate athletics
Legislative Description
Requires public institution of higher education to provide alternative scholarship to student-athlete who loses athletic scholarship due to injury.
Higher Education
Last Action
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee
9/30/2024