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Assembly Bill A8612

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing student-athletes to earn compensation as a result of the use of that student's name, image or likeness

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2019-A8612 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §6438-a, Ed L

2019-A8612 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to allowing student-athletes to earn compensation as a result of the use of that student's name, image or likeness; prohibits an athlete or college from being prevented from participating in intercollegiate athletics because an athlete receives compensation; provides that a college shall not provide a prospective athlete with compensation in relation to the athlete's name, image and likeness.

2019-A8612 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8612
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              October 2, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing  student-ath-
   letes  to  earn  compensation as a result of the use of that student's
   name, image or likeness
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6438-a
 to read as follows:
   §  6438-A.  STUDENT-ATHLETE  COMPENSATION.  1. (A) A COLLEGE, EXCEPT A
 COMMUNITY COLLEGE, SHALL NOT UPHOLD ANY RULE, REQUIREMENT, STANDARD,  OR
 OTHER LIMITATION THAT PREVENTS A STUDENT OF THAT INSTITUTION PARTICIPAT-
 ING  IN  INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS FROM EARNING COMPENSATION AS A RESULT
 OF THE USE OF THE STUDENT'S NAME, IMAGE, OR  LIKENESS.  EARNING  COMPEN-
 SATION  FROM  THE  USE OF A STUDENT'S NAME, IMAGE, OR LIKENESS SHALL NOT
 AFFECT THE STUDENT'S SCHOLARSHIP ELIGIBILITY.
   (B) AN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, CONFERENCE, OR OTHER GROUP  OR  ORGANIZA-
 TION  WITH  AUTHORITY OVER INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO, THE NATIONAL  COLLEGIATE  ATHLETIC  ASSOCIATION,  SHALL  NOT
 PREVENT  A STUDENT OF A COLLEGE PARTICIPATING IN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLET-
 ICS FROM EARNING COMPENSATION AS A RESULT OF THE USE  OF  THE  STUDENT'S
 NAME, IMAGE, OR LIKENESS.
   (C)  AN  ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, CONFERENCE, OR OTHER GROUP OR ORGANIZA-
 TION WITH AUTHORITY OVER INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS, INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO,  THE  NATIONAL  COLLEGIATE  ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, SHALL NOT
 PREVENT A COLLEGE FROM PARTICIPATING IN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS  AS  A
 RESULT  OF  THE  COMPENSATION  OF  A  STUDENT-ATHLETE FOR THE USE OF THE
 STUDENT'S NAME, IMAGE, OR LIKENESS.
   2. A COLLEGE, ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION,  CONFERENCE,  OR  OTHER  GROUP  OR
 ORGANIZATION  WITH  AUTHORITY  OVER  INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS SHALL NOT
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13804-01-9

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