A bipartisan bill to set national standards for college athletes’ compensation has cleared a major legislative hurdle but still faces roadblocks, including opposition from the largest college sports conferences, to becoming law.
The bill, which supporters say would “restore order in college athletics” after a chaotic few years following an explosion of payments to athletes, advanced 19-9 out of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in mid-June and can now make its way to the Senate floor.
The bill’s support from senators of both parties, a host of college sports organizations and President Donald Trump — who has called the bill “the last chance to save College Sports” — presents perhaps the best chance of federal policy to address issues resulting from the NCAA’s 2021 guidelines that allowed student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness, or NIL.
But the measure is up against opposition from the powerful Big Ten and Southeastern conferences, and faces a narrow legislative window as Congress rushes toward its summer recess and the fall campaign season.
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