AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - COMPENSATION FOR STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS (Expressly allows college athletes, while they are students, to personally profit from the use of their name, image, and likeness, and prohibits the NCAA from preventing these practices.)
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Jun 2021
House Passage
Jun 2021
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 22, 2021
Last action Jun 25, 2021
Floor votes · House Jun 15, 2021
How they voted
68–1
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 74
Jun 15, 2021
D
Democratic64
92% Yea
R
Republican10
90% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
9
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Jun 25, 2021
Committee
06/25/2021 Referred to Senate Education
upper
Jun 15, 2021
Lower · Passed
06/15/2021 House read and passed
lower
Jun 9, 2021
Legislature · Passed
06/09/2021 Committee recommends passage
legislature
Feb 10, 2021
Legislature · Passed
02/10/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
legislature
Feb 2, 2021
Lower · Passed
02/02/2021 Committee transferred to House Education
lower
Jan 22, 2021
Introduced
01/22/2021 Introduced, referred to House H.E.W.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Joseph Solomon
DDemocratic
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