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CA SB26
Bill
AI Summary
- Makes the Fair Pay to Play Act provisions operative on September 1, 2021, instead of January 1, 2023, allowing student athletes to earn compensation from their name, image, likeness, or athletic reputation immediately
- Extends compensation and representation protections to California Community Colleges, which were previously excluded
- Prohibits postsecondary institutions and athletic organizations from providing prospective student athletes with compensation related to their athletic reputation or preventing students from earning such compensation
- Requires student athletes to disclose name, image, and likeness contracts to their institution and prohibits team contracts from restricting athletes' commercial use of their identity outside official team activities
- Ensures athletic associations and conferences cannot prevent institutions or athletes from participating in intercollegiate athletics based on student athlete compensation for name, image, likeness, or athletic reputation
Legislative Description
Collegiate athletics: student athlete compensation and representation.
Last Action
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 159, Statutes of 2021.
8/31/2021
Committee Referrals
Appropriations6/29/2021
Higher Education6/22/2021
Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media6/10/2021
Appropriations3/24/2021
Judiciary3/10/2021
Education1/28/2021
Rules12/7/2020
Full Bill Text
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