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Senate committee advances bill easing fee‑cap limits to cover new athlete health mandates
Summary
Senate Bill 1217 would exempt mandated student‑athlete physical and mental health costs from existing student‑fee spending caps and ask JLARC for a landscape study. Committee reported the bill and adopted a line amendment delaying the JLARC report deadline to 2026.
The Senate Committee on Education and Health reported SB 1217 after a floor presentation by Senator Deeds, who framed the bill as a response to decade‑long changes in college athletics and new NCAA mandates that increase institutional costs.
"First, the bill will allow schools to exempt spending on student athlete mental and physical health from student fee spending caps," Deeds told the committee, adding that current law already permits some exemptions and that the bill would require reporting of such spending to the Auditor of Public Accounts and the General…
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