Examining the NCAA’s aggressive push for federal NIL laws
As reported by Eric Prisbell of on3.com, the NCAA has been pushing for federal legislation to regulate the Name Image Likeness in college sports.
The NCAA is aggressively pushing for federal NIL legislation that checks three very important boxes on its wish list:
- A uniform national NIL standard to preempt the patchwork of state laws that have been passed or proposed over the past 23 months, ever since student-athletes have been allowed to monetize their brands.
- At the bare minimum, limited antitrust protection at a time when the association is increasingly vulnerable to legal challenges.
- A designation that student-athletes are not employees of their schools, conferences or the NCAA.
The intensifying lobbying on Capitol Hill, as well as the flurry of bills whose drafts have been introduced or floated, reflects a college athletics landscape undergoing change at a dizzying pace.
All of this is occurring at the same time states nationwide, most notably Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, New York, Oklahoma and Texas, have recently passed or are considering reform squarely aimed at bypassing NCAA NIL oversight.
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The Tuberville-Manchin bipartisan bill (unnamed)
Sponsors: Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) and Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia)
The College Athletes Bill of Rights
Sponsors: Sens. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai’i), Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Alex Padilla (D-California)
The College Sports NIL Clearinghouse Act of 2023
Sponsor: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)
T The Fairness, Accountability, and Integrity in Representation (FAIR) of College Sports Act
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David Keech is a retired teacher and works as a sportswriter, sports official and as an educational consultant. He has reported on amateur sports since 2011, known as 'KeechDaVoice.' David can be reached at [email protected]
