Protecting Student-Athletes' Rights: Earnings, Medical Care, and Education.
This act aims to protect student-athletes' rights, allowing them to profit from their name, image, and likeness. It also ensures better medical care after their sports careers and access to financial and career education. Educational institutions failing to meet these requirements may lose federal funding.
Key points
Student-athletes can profit from their name, image, and likeness, with limited restrictions from institutions.
Institutions must cover medical costs for student-athletes' sports-related injuries for 4 years after graduation or departure.
Athletic scholarships cannot be reduced or canceled due to injury, performance, or roster decisions, and remain available for degree completion for 10 years.
Institutions must provide student-athletes with education and training on financial literacy, career preparation, mental health, and sexual violence prevention.
The act establishes a centralized, anonymized database to estimate the fair market value of name, image, and likeness agreements for student-athletes.
The act prevents student-athletes from being considered employees of institutions, conferences, or athletic associations.
Status:
Introduced
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