College Athletics Reform Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 26
- Latest action
- Dec 2, 2025
What it does
The College Athletics Reform Act would protect college athletes' rights to receive compensation for the use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) and to obtain professional representation, while prohibiting intercollegiate athletic associations, conferences, and institutions from restricting these rights or taking adverse action against athletes who exercise them. The bill requires NIL agreements over $600 to be in writing and include specific terms such as compensation amount, agreement duration, and termination provisions, and allows athletes to void noncompliant agreements. It also amends immigration law to clarify eligibility for international college athletes to engage in NIL…
AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.
Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Lori Trahan
- Betty McCollum
- Chellie Pingree
- Deborah Ross
- Derek Tran
- Emilia Sykes
- Greg Stanton
- Hillary Scholten
- James McGovern
- Janelle Bynum
- Jennifer McClellan
- Jill Tokuda
- Jim Costa
- Joe Courtney
- Julie Johnson
- Kevin Mullin
- Lizzie Fletcher
- Lois Frankel
- Mary Scanlon
- Paul Tonko
- Raul Ruiz
- Seth Magaziner
- Susie Lee
- Suzan DelBene
- Teresa Leger Fernandez
- Troy Carter
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.