[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1363 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1363

  To prohibit institutions of higher education from unfairly imposing 
                     sanctions on student athletes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2003

     Mr. George Miller of California (for himself and Mr. Andrews) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit institutions of higher education from unfairly imposing 
                     sanctions on student athletes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Student Athlete Fairness Act of 
2003''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE CIVIL PENALTIES.

    Section 485 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(h) Prohibition on Unfair Imposition of Sanctions on Student 
Athletes.--No institution of higher education that participates in any 
program under this title, and that has an intercollegiate athletic 
program, shall--
            ``(1) impose a penalty or other sanction on a student 
        athlete (including by canceling or forfeiting games) for a 
        violation of an intercollegiate athletics association's rules 
        or codes of conduct that was not committed by that student;
            ``(2) submit to the imposition by an intercollegiate 
        athletics association of any sanction on a student athlete 
        (including by canceling or forfeiting games) for a violation of 
        an intercollegiate athletics association's rules or codes of 
        conduct that was not committed by that student; or
            ``(3) be a member of an intercollegiate athletics 
        association whose rules or codes of conduct authorize the 
        imposition of a sanction on a student athlete (including by 
        canceling or forfeiting games) for a violation of an 
        intercollegiate athletics association's rules or codes of 
        conduct that was not committed by that student.''.
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