Travel ban in California hurting college sports, lawmaker says
San Diego State's men's basketball team took the court Thursday in the first round of the NCAA tournament, but California's multistate travel ban meant the trip to Wichita, Kansas, was more arduous than usual.
Under a California law that took effect last year, state universities and public agencies are prohibited from using state money to travel to Kansas and seven other states with laws deemed discriminatory toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
That meant San Diego State's athletic department had to use private funds to pay for travel to Wichita. The university faced the same situation last year when its football team was invited to the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas.
But one California lawmaker has introduced Assembly Bill 2389 to change that and allow California colleges to use taxpayer money for athletic and academic trips to the banned states.
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