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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 518 

To amend the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 to require the Statistics Commissioner to collect information from coeducational secondary 

schools on such schools’ athletic programs. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 7, 2007 

Ms. SNOWE (for herself and Mrs. MURRAY) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To amend the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 to 

require the Statistics Commissioner to collect information 

from coeducational secondary schools on such schools’ 

athletic programs. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘High School Sports 

5 Information Collection Act of 2007’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. STATISTICS ON EQUALITY IN ATHLETIC PROGRAMS. 

2 Section 153 of the Education Sciences Reform Act 

3 of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9543) is amended by adding at the 

4 end the following: 

5 ‘‘(c) EQUALITY IN ATHLETIC PROGRAMS.—The Sta6 tistics Commissioner shall collect, annually, for the imme7 diately preceding academic year, from each coeducational 

8 secondary school (as defined in section 9101 of the Ele9 mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 

10 7801)) that receives Federal financial assistance that has 

11 an athletic program, the following information: 

12 ‘‘(1) The number of male and female students 

13 that attended the school. 

14 ‘‘(2) A listing of the teams that competed in 

15 athletic competition and for each such team the fol16 lowing data: 

17 ‘‘(A) The season in which the team com18 peted. 

19 ‘‘(B) The total number of participants as 

20 of the day of the first scheduled contest for the 

21 team, and for each participant an identification 

22 of such participant’s— 

23 ‘‘(i) gender; 

24 ‘‘(ii) race; and 

25 ‘‘(iii) ethnicity. 


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1 ‘‘(C) The total budget and expenditures for 

2 the team, including the following data: 

3 ‘‘(i) The travel budget and expendi4 tures. 

5 ‘‘(ii) The equipment budget and ex6 penditures (including any equipment re7 placement schedule). 

8 ‘‘(iii) The uniform budget and expend9 itures (including any uniform replacement 

10 schedule). 

11 ‘‘(iv) The budget and expenditures for 

12 facilities, including locker rooms, fields, 

13 and gymnasiums. 

14 ‘‘(v) The total number of trainers (in15 cluding full-time and part-time) and for 

16 each trainer an identification of such train17 er’s gender. 

18 ‘‘(vi) The budget and expenditures for 

19 publicity for competitions. 

20 ‘‘(D) The total number of coaches (includ21 ing full-time, part-time, head, and assistant) 

22 and for each coach an identification of such 

23 coach’s— 

24 ‘‘(i) gender; and 

25 ‘‘(ii) qualifications. 


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1 ‘‘(E) The total number of competitions 

2 scheduled, and for each scheduled competition 

3 an indication of what time the competition was 

4 scheduled. 

5 ‘‘(F) Whether such team participated in 

6 postseason competition, and the success of such 

7 team in any postseason competition.’’. 

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