OVERVIEW OF SB26-100
SB26-100 would add costs and complications without meaningfully advancing youth safety.
The bill significantly expands taxpayer liability and imposes rigid statutory mandates that will make it harder and more expensive to run community athletic activities.
CML’S POSITION: CML Opposes SB26-100
SB26-100, Youth Sports Safety Requirements, imposes new and unnecessary rules on local recreation programs that will make it harder to recruit volunteers and coaches, and more expensive for kids to participate in sports.
SB26-100:
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Requires exhaustive background checks for youth sports coaches and chaperones, potentially interfering with existing employment and volunteer relationships.
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Imposes burdensome supervision requirements on already strained youth sports systems.
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Creates a new civil private right to file suit against local governments that operate youth sports programs for the private criminal actions of volunteers or coaches, if the municipality did not complete the new expanded background checks or supervision requirements, with insufficient exclusions or protections for administrative errors.
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Requires an adult with CPR, first aid, and AED certifications at every activity, even when activities are held in a facility where multiple certified adults are already present.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Contact your legislator and tell them to
VOTE NO
on SB26-100.
SB26-100 will be heard in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee
on Wednesday, April 29, upon adjournment.
CML needs testimony from member municipalities that oppose this unnecessary preemption.
You can testify in person or online.
Contact committee members to let them know you OPPOSE SB26-100.
RESOURCES
and next steps
Contact CML Legislative and Policy Advocate Owen Brigner at obri...@cml.org
or 419-786-9703 for talking points, anticipated questions, or with any questions.
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