SB 3: AN ACT relating to student-athletes and declaring an emergency.

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Amend KRS 164.6941 to define terms; amend KRS 164.6943 to allow the limitation of earning compensation through a NIL agreement through an institutional agreement between the student-athlete and the institution or affiliated organization; permit an institution or association to require compensation be consistent with the prevailing range of compensation; amend KRS 164.6945 to conform and authorize a student-athlete to receive compensation from an institution or its affiliated corporation through a written institutional agreement; authorize an institution or affiliated corporation to designate a media rights holder or other third parties whom an institution's student-athletes may directly enter into NIL agreements with; amend KRS 164.6947 to conform and provide affiliated corporation's employees with the same liability protections as institution employees as it relates to damages resulting from decisions and actions routinely taken in the course of intercollegiate athletics; delete language providing that nothing in the section protects institutions from acts of gross negligence and certain misconduct; exempt a student-athlete's institutional agreements not from disclosure under the Kentucky Open Records Act; amend KRS 164.6949 to include the waiver for actions brought on institutional agreements under KRS 45A.245; amend KRS 164.6951 to conform and include prospective student athletes in provisions concerning the reaffirming of NIL agreements or agency contracts when no longer participating in intercollegiate athletics; amend KRS 156.070 to include school property in the prohibition of a high school student-athlete's use of member school property; EMERGENCY.

Sponsors

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. March 13, 2025signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 10)
2. March 11, 2025delivered to Governor
3. March 11, 2025enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
4. March 11, 2025enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
5. March 11, 2025received in Senate
6. March 11, 20253rd reading, passed 97-0
7. March 7, 2025posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 11, 2025
8. March 7, 20252nd reading, to Rules
9. March 6, 2025reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
10. March 5, 2025to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
11. March 5, 2025to Committee on Committees (H)
12. March 5, 2025received in House

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