SB 117-62: SEC Act - Failed

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

b]SEC Act[/b]
An Act to Promote Education at Universities

Section 1: Title and Intent
1. This act shall be known as the "Stopping Excessive Compensation Act".
2. The intent of this act is to limit salaries for people who coach an athletic team and people who direct an athletic department at publicly-funded colleges and universities.

Section 2: Limit on Salaries
1. No accredited institution of higher learning that receives public funds may pay a director, coach, or member of an athletic department or a sports team an annual total compensation package greater than 150% of the annual total compensation package of the highest paid educational staff member at the institution.
2. Colleges may not use the fact that they treat sports practice as a "class" and/or confer credit(s) for participation and/or performance in practices and/or competitions as a valid legal defense to pay someone a higher salary than would otherwise be authorized under this law.
3. Colleges may not use the fact that they personally consider people who coach or direct athletics to be educational staff members, nor the fact that they use alternative job titles for what would traditionally be called a "coach" or "athletic director", as a valid legal defense to pay someone a higher salary than would otherwise be authorized under this law.

Section 3: Sanctions
1. Any accredited institution of higher learning that receives public funds that is found to violate this Act will immediate waive any further public funding for two fiscal years.

Section 4: Enactment
1. This Act shall take effect January 1, 2024.

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[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

motion for a final vote

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

All this will do is get the universities to rename the positions. Like Cal State already classifies coaches, presidents, and any faculty as administrators. Also athletic directors make about the same as university presidents and most coaches aren't paid any higher than a lot of professors.

Great - if the disparity is as small as you claim, then this legislation will not be burdensome for most colleges. It will be targeted at the Nick Saban/Dabo Swinney/John Calipari class.

You're missing the other point they'll just reclassify the job title. It's an easy workaround. Also, I believe college sports practice is technically a class. At least it was at my school.

Class as in you got a credit from the college for showing up?

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

motion withdrawn while we figure this out

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Amendment:

SEC Act
An Act to Promote Education at Universities

Section 1: Title and Intent
1. This act shall be known as the "Stopping Excessive Compensation Act".
2. The intent of this act is to limit salaries for coaches people who coach an athletic teamand athletic directors people who direct an athletic department at publicly-funded colleges and universities.

Section 2: Limit on Salaries
1. No accredited institution of higher learning that receives public funds may pay an athletic director, coach, or member of an coaching staff, athletic department, ofr a sports team an annual total compensation package greater than 150% of the annual total compensation package of the highest paid educational staff member at the institution.
2. Colleges may not use the fact that they treat sports practice as a "class" and/or confer credit(s) for participation and/or performance in practices and/or competitions as a valid legal defense to pay someone a higher salary than would otherwise be authorized under this law.
3. Colleges may not use the fact that they personally consider people who coach or direct athletics to be educational staff members, nor the fact that they use alternative job titles for what would traditionally be called a "coach" or "athletic director", as a valid legal defense to pay someone a higher salary than would otherwise be authorized under this law.
   
Section 3: Sanctions
1. Any accredited institution of higher learning that receives public funds that is found to violate this Act will immediate waive any further public funding for two fiscal years.

Section 4: Enactment
1. This Act shall take effect January 1, 2024.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Amendment adopted

motion for a final vote

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

A final vote is beginning.

Aye

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Fails 7-8-0-3