Amateur Athletic Act

Summary

Amateur Athletic Act - Title I: United States Amateur Sports Board - Expresses the findings of Congress in the realm of amateur athletic competition. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Establishes an independent agency to be known as the United States Amateur Sports Board. Prescribes the qualifications of the five-member Board, their terms of office, and procedures for Chairman election. Empowers the Board to issue charters to corporations, designating them as a United States Sports Association for not more than three sports. Enumerates additional powers and authorities of the Board, including the revocation of charters. Provides special expediting procedures for resolving matters relating to competitive events on a 48-hour notice. Specifies the requirements to be met in order to be eligible to receive a charter, including: (1) incorporation; (2) application; and (3) demonstration of specific amateur athletic policies. Prescribes the circumstances under which corporations shall not be eligible to receive a charter, and under which charter applications may be denied. Provides that no unrestricted competition shall be conducted within the United States more than two years after the date of enactment of this Title unless sanctioned by a United States Sports Association. Enumerates the circumstances under which sanctioning shall not be granted. Provides for the mediation of disputes by the Board. Directs the Board to appoint a United States Olympic Commission to review the participation of the United States in the Olympic games. Describes the duties of such Commission. Directs the Board to establish: (1) a Division of Athletic Facilities to study facets of athletic facilities; and (2) a Division of Safety and Health to analyze aspects of safety in athletics. Enumerates additional powers of the Board. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Board for specified purposes of this title such sums as are necessary not to exceed $1,100,000 for fiscal year 1974, not to exceed $1,100,000 for fiscal year 1975, and not to exceed $1,100,000 for fiscal year 1976. Authorizes the sum of $750,000 for fiscal year 1974, to be appropriated for the use of the Commission in carrying out other provisions of this Act. Title II: National Sports Development Foundation - Establishes in the District of Columbia a body corporate by the name of the National Sports Development Foundation which shall not be an establishment of the United States Government, to be directed by the Trustees of the National Sports Development Foundation. Provides procedures for appointment of members of the United States Amateur Sports Board. States that such members shall be selected from among persons distinguished for their dedication to the highest ideals of sports, for their freedom from bias in sports, and for their knowledge and experience in sports development in its broadest sense. Enumerates the powers of the Board and of the Foundation. Requires the Board to submit annual reports to the President, for transmittal to Congress, describing its activities and accomplishments. Provides that the accounts of the Foundation shall be audited annually. Authorizes for each fiscal year following fiscal year 1975, to be appropriated to the board for use in carrying out the provisions of this title, an amount equal to the amount of donations, bequests, and devises of property received by the board during the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which such appropriation is made, except that the total aggregate amount appropriated shall not exceed $50,000,000.

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• Motion to recommit bill as amended in Senate

  summary · EN · 3 October 1973

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 3 August 1973

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