HUSTLE Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates tax-advantaged NIL investment accounts for college athletes, imposes new registration and fee-cap rules on athlete agents and athletic associations, and gives student athletes a private right of action.
Who Benefits and How
Student athletes could defer and invest some NIL earnings on tax-favored terms, gain stronger protections against agent misconduct, and sue under federal law without being forced into predispute arbitration.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Athlete agents and athletic associations would face new state-registration, disclosure, fee-cap, database, and litigation exposure, while Treasury and Education would need to define and administer the NIL account rules.
Key Provisions
- Creates NIL investment accounts with tax-favored contribution and distribution rules for eligible athletes at participating institutions.
- Lets Treasury, in consultation with Education, define athlete eligibility and verification procedures for the accounts.
- Requires athlete agents representing endorsement deals to register with a State, caps fees at 5 percent, and requires athletic associations to maintain a public searchable database of registered agents.
- Creates a private right of action for current and former student athletes and invalidates predispute arbitration and joint-action waivers for disputes under the Act.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill creates tax-advantaged NIL investment accounts for college athletes, imposes new registration and fee-cap rules on athlete agents and athletic associations, and gives student athletes a private right of action.
Key Policy Areas
Education, Consumer Protection, Tax Policy
Primary Purpose
This bill creates tax-advantaged NIL investment accounts for college athletes, imposes new registration and fee-cap rules on athlete agents and athletic associations, and gives student athletes a private right of action.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Current and former student athletes earning name-image-likeness income
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Athlete agents and athletic associations subject to new registration, fee, disclosure, and litigation rules
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMrs. Blackburn (for herself and Ms. Cantwell) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Athlete agents exposed to more lawsuits and unable to enforce predispute arbitration or joint-action waivers, Athlete agents representing student-athlete endorsement deals who face registration rules and a 5 percent fee cap, Athlete agents whose endorsement representation is more clearly covered by federal sports-agent rules
Positive-direction: Current and former student athletes who gain direct court access and remedies against athlete agents, Eligible student athletes using NIL investment accounts for tax-favored saving of NIL income, Student athletes receiving clearer coverage of endorsement-related agent relationships, Student athletes who can compare registered agents and benefit from the fee cap
Negative-direction: Athlete agents exposed to more lawsuits and unable to enforce predispute arbitration or joint-action waivers, Athlete agents representing student-athlete endorsement deals who face registration rules and a 5 percent fee cap, Athlete agents whose endorsement representation is more clearly covered by federal sports-agent rules, Athletic associations required to operate and maintain public agent-registration databases
Federal tax revenues reduced by excluding contributed NIL income from current taxation
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of the Treasury
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