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PA HB1520
Bill
Status
5/30/2025
Primary Sponsor
Aerion Abney
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AI Summary
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Prospective and current college student athletes may enter into agency contracts with athlete agents and receive NIL (name, image, likeness) compensation directly from institutions, NIL collectives, athletic program supporters, and third parties
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Institutions are prohibited from reducing, canceling, or not renewing athletic scholarships because a student athlete enters into an NIL agreement, and cannot comply with NCAA investigations or rules related to NIL activities
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Written NIL agreements are required for compensation of $5,000 or more per calendar year, must include payment amounts, schedules, athlete obligations, and agreement dates; institutional NIL agreements are exempt from Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law
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Athlete agents are barred from entering contracts if they have felony convictions, certain misdemeanors involving deception or violence, or multiple drug/alcohol offenses; upfront payments to athletes in exchange for future professional sports earnings are void and prohibited
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College student athletes, institutions, and other parties subjected to NCAA penalties or adverse actions for engaging in activities protected under this article may bring civil actions to recover damages, attorney fees, and injunctive relief; the Attorney General may also seek damages on behalf of injured persons
Legislative Description
In intercollegiate athletics, further providing for definitions and providing for rights of parties, for prohibitions on institutions, for athletic associations, conferences and organizations with authority over intercollegiate sports, for NIL agreements, for athlete agents and upfront payments, for athletic program structure, for protections and right to adjudicate, for private civil action, for settlements and for severability.
Last Action
Referred to Education
5/30/2025