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Senate Bill 6

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Last Action 03/09/22: signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 12)
Title AN ACT relating to athletics and declaring an emergency.
Bill Documents Acts Chapter 12
Current/Final
Introduced
Bill Request Number 195
Sponsors M. Wise, M. McGarvey, W. Schroder, W. Westerfield
Summary of Original Version Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide protections for student athletes seeking compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements or seeking an athlete agent; provide similar protections for institutions; establish prohibitions, conditions, and limitations on athletes earning compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements; prohibit name, image, and likeness compensation as an inducement; prohibit institutions, associations, or affiliated organizations from providing compensation for name, image, and likeness of a student athlete and other similar activities; establish a process for institutions to review name, image, and likeness agreements of student athletes; authorize institutions to establish reasonable restrictions on name, image, and likeness activities of student athletes; provide protections for institutions and their employees in actions taken in the course of administering intercollegiate athletics; require institutions to provide financial literacy and life skills education to student athletes; authorize institutions to provide ongoing support to student athletes and information on name, image, and likeness to the general public; establish that name, image, and likeness agreement documents and related information in possession of public postsecondary institutions are protected student records; limit applicability; limit duration of name, image, and likeness and agency contract agreements for minors and student athletes; amend KRS 164.6903 to conform; amend KRS 156.070 to forbid KHSAA member schools from authorizing student athlete use of school logo and similar property in the athlete's name, image, and likeness activities; authorize Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate regulations to enforce rules on name, image, and likeness; authorize agreements made pursuant to Executive Order 2021-418 for one year and nullify the executive order; EMERGENCY.
Index Headings of Original Version Education, Elementary and Secondary - Athletes, name, image, and likeness regulation
Education, Higher - Student athlete, name, image, and likeness
Effective Dates, Emergency - Athlete, name, image, and likeness regulation
Governor - Executive Order 2021-418, nullification
Licensing - Athlete agents, intercollegiate athlete, name, image, and likeness
Public Records and Reports - Student athlete name, image, and likeness agreements, disclosure
Universities and Colleges - Student athletes, name, image, and likeness agreements
Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Board of Education, school involvement, name, image, and likeness
Athletics - Intercollegiate athletes, name, image, and likeness compensation, authorization
Athletics - Interscholastic athletes, name, image, and likeness, regulation
Commerce - Student athlete, name, image, and likeness agreements
Contracts - Student athlete, athlete agent agreement
Contracts - Student athlete, name, image, and likeness agreements
Jump to Proposed Amendments Senate Committee Substitute 1
Senate Floor Amendment 1
Votes Vote History

Actions

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01/11/22
  • introduced in Senate
  • to Committee on Committees (S)
01/12/22
  • to Education (S)
  • taken from Education (S)
  • 1st reading
  • returned to Education (S)
01/31/22
  • taken from Education (S)
  • 2nd reading
  • returned to Education (S)
02/09/22
  • reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
  • floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
02/10/22
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 10, 2022
  • 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (1)
02/11/22
  • received in House
  • to Committee on Committees (H)
02/25/22
  • to Education (H)
03/01/22
  • reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
03/02/22
  • 2nd reading, to Rules
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 03, 2022
03/07/22
  • 3rd reading, passed 89-2
  • received in Senate
  • enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
03/08/22
  • enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
  • delivered to Governor
03/09/22
  • signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 12)

Proposed Amendments

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Amendment Senate Committee Substitute 1
Summary Retain original provisions; delete provision relating to promotion, display, broadcast, or rebroadcast of an intercollegiate sport; allow preferential conditions for the use of institution's intellectual property with agreements involving the institution's partners.
Index Headings Education, Higher - Athletic event broadcast, rights
Education, Higher - Name, image, and likeness agreement, institutional intellectual property, preference
Athletics - Athletic event broadcast, rights
Athletics - Name, image, and likeness agreement, institutional intellectual property, preference
Commerce - Athletic event broadcast, rights
Commerce - Name, image, and likeness agreement, institutional intellectual property, preference

Amendment Senate Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor M. Wise
Summary Remove prohibition of negotiating on behalf of current student athletes.
Index Headings Athletics - Student athlete, name, image, and likeness activities, negotiation
Education, Higher - Student athlete, name, image, and likeness activities, negotiation

Last updated: 2/8/2023 2:57 PM (EST)