Existing law prohibits a public or private institution that offers educational services beyond the secondary level from: (1) upholding or enforcing certain rules that prevent student athletes from being compensated for the use of the name, image or likeness of the student athlete by the institution or a national collegiate association; (2) compensating a current student athlete of the institution for the use of the name, image or likeness of the student athlete; or (3) altering, withholding or otherwise reducing the amount of a scholarship awarded to a student athlete because the student athlete is compensated for the use of the name, image or likeness of the student athlete by the institution or a national collegiate athletic association. (NRS 398.045, 398.300) Section 1 of this bill eliminates these prohibitions. Existing law authorizes a student athlete to enter into a contract with an organization other than an institution or a national collegiate athletic association that provides for the student athlete to be compensated for the use of the name, image or likeness of the student athlete. (NRS 398.310) Section 2 of this bill authorizes a student athlete to enter into such a contract with an institution or a national collegiate athletic association.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 398.300, 398.310
BDR: 398.300, 398.310