To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit certain private-equity and sovereign wealth fund agreements involving intercollegiate athletics.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Makes Title IV higher-education eligibility conditional on institutions not entering, maintaining, or permitting private-capital or sovereign-wealth-fund agreements that convey ownership, revenue, control, or property interests in intercollegiate athletics.
Who Benefits and How
Students, taxpayers, institutions preserving educational control, and public-interest stakeholders could benefit from limits on private extraction and foreign state-backed influence over college athletics assets and revenues.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Institutions, athletics conferences, collectives, affiliates, private capital firms, and sovereign wealth funds would face restrictions, certifications, public disclosure, transition duties, and potentially lost deal opportunities.
Key Provisions
- Finds that intercollegiate athletics are tied to educational missions, public support, and interstate commerce.
- Bars covered private-capital and sovereign-wealth agreements as a condition of Title IV eligibility.
- Covers revenue interests, ownership interests, control rights, athletics rights, facilities, and related real-property interests.
- Exempts fee-for-service contracts, charitable contributions, tax-exempt bond financings without revenue/control interests, and ordinary sponsorships or advertising.
- Extends compliance to conference, consortium, affiliate, collective, foundation, and controlled-entity arrangements.
- Requires annual certification, public disclosure of exception-based agreements, a 24-month transition for existing agreements, and Education Department rulemaking.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Makes Title IV higher-education eligibility conditional on institutions not entering, maintaining, or permitting private-capital or sovereign-wealth-fund agreements that convey ownership, revenue, control, or property interests in intercollegiate athletics.
Key Policy Areas
Education, Finance, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Makes Title IV higher-education eligibility conditional on institutions not entering, maintaining, or permitting private-capital or sovereign-wealth-fund agreements that convey ownership, revenue, control, or property interests in intercollegiate athletics.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Students, taxpayers, and institutions seeking to preserve college athletics for educational and public purposes
- Athletics programs avoiding external control over core revenue and governance decisions
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Private equity funds, hedge funds, private funds, investment advisers, and sovereign wealth funds seeking college athletics deals
- Institutions and athletics affiliates that must certify, disclose, unwind, or avoid covered arrangements
- Education Department officials issuing and enforcing regulations
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Baumgartner introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Institutions, athletics conferences, collectives, foundations, and affiliates certifying and disclosing compliance, Students, taxpayers, and institutions protected from private extraction or foreign state-backed influence over college athletics
Positive-direction: Students, taxpayers, and institutions protected from private extraction or foreign state-backed influence over college athletics
Negative-direction: Institutions, athletics conferences, collectives, foundations, and affiliates certifying and disclosing compliance
Private equity funds, hedge funds, private funds, investment advisers, and sovereign wealth funds seeking college athletics interests
Education Department officials issuing regulations and enforcing Title IV participation conditions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "sec"
- → Securities and Exchange Commission
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Education
- "secretary_of_treasury"
- → Secretary of the Treasury
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A hedge fund, private equity fund, private fund, or investment adviser advising such a fund.
Consent, veto, or approval rights over budgets, hiring, scheduling, competition, branding, strategic decisions, or similar rights to direct management or operations.
An investment fund owned or controlled by a foreign state, its agency or instrumentality, or an agent of a foreign principal.
Teams, departments, conferences, media or data rights, ticketing, premium seating, sponsorships, licensing, merchandising, and varsity athletics facilities.
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