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Assembly Bill A11717

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to compensation received by minor student-athletes from contracts for the use of a student-athlete's name, image and likeness

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2025-A11717 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2025-A11717 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that if compensation in excess of ten thousand dollars per year is paid to a student-athlete who is a minor from contracts for the use of the student-athlete's name, image and likeness, all amounts in excess of ten thousand dollars must be deposited into a restricted trust account established for the benefit of the student-athlete.

2025-A11717 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11717
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 16, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Solages) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to compensation  received
   by  minor  student-athletes  from  contracts for the use of a student-
   athlete's name, image and likeness
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 6438-c of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   9. (A) THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION APPLY TO  A  STUDENT-ATHLETE
 WHO HAS COMPLETED AT LEAST THEIR SOPHOMORE YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL OR INTER-
 NATIONAL  EQUIVALENT, AND IS ELIGIBLE, OR MAY IN THE FUTURE BE ELIGIBLE,
 TO ATTEND A COLLEGE AND PARTICIPATE IN  INTERCOLLEGIATE  ATHLETICS.  THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO STUDENT-ATHLETES EIGH-
 TEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
   (B)  IF  TOTAL COMPENSATION EARNED FROM THE USE OF A STUDENT-ATHLETE'S
 NAME, IMAGE AND LIKENESS PAID TO A  STUDENT-ATHLETE  DURING  A  CALENDAR
 YEAR  IS  TEN  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  OR LESS, SUCH COMPENSATION MAY BE PAID
 DIRECTLY TO THE STUDENT-ATHLETE OR THE PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF  SUCH
 STUDENT-ATHLETE.
   (C)(I)  IF  TOTAL  COMPENSATION  EARNED  FROM  THE  USE  OF A STUDENT-
 ATHLETE'S NAME, IMAGE AND LIKENESS PAID TO A  STUDENT-ATHLETE  DURING  A
 CALENDAR YEAR EXCEEDS TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, ALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF TEN
 THOUSAND  DOLLARS  SHALL  BE  DEPOSITED  INTO A RESTRICTED TRUST ACCOUNT
 ESTABLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE STUDENT-ATHLETE.
   (II) THE TRUST ACCOUNT DESCRIBED IN THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL  BE  ADMINIS-
 TERED  IN  A  MANNER  CONSISTENT  WITH  NEW YORK STATE LAW APPLICABLE TO
 SETTLEMENT FUNDS INVOLVING A MINOR, EXCEPT AS MODIFIED BY THIS  SUBDIVI-
 SION.
   (III)  FUNDS HELD IN TRUST AS DESCRIBED IN THIS SUBPARAGRAPH SHALL NOT
 BE RELEASED UNTIL THE STUDENT-ATHLETE  GRADUATES  FROM  HIGH  SCHOOL  OR
 ATTAINS THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN, WHICHEVER OCCURS FIRST.
   (IV) THE TRUST ACCOUNT SHALL:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16167-01-6

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