District of ColumbiaD.C. emergency law let colleges help athletes handle deal payments
For up to 90 days after May 19, 2025, D.C. colleges and athletic groups could help athletes pay agents and collect money from deals using their names or appearances.
What it does
Until August 17, 2025, colleges and athletic groups could help college athletes choose and pay agents and collect money from outside parties in specific deals using athletes' names or appearances.
While the emergency act was in force, colleges and athletic conferences could pay college athletes for use of their names or appearances.
The emergency act said financial disclosure rules for certain D.C. boards and commissions would not apply before January 1, 2026. The act expired August 17, 2025.
Argument forHelp from colleges and athletic groups may have made it easier for athletes to pay agents and collect money owed under specific deals.
Argument againstIf colleges helped choose agents and handle payments, athletes might have found it harder to keep their deals independent of their schools.
More detail
Colleges, conferences, and athletic associations could help athletes choose or pay agents and arrange or collect payments from outside parties. This covered colleges, athletic conferences, and athletic associations working with college athletes. Payments from outside parties had to involve specific agreements to use one or more athletes' names, images, or likenesses. The emergency act took effect after the Mayor approved it on May 19, 2025, and expired August 17, 2025.
Colleges and athletic conferences could pay college athletes for use of their names, images, or likenesses. This concerned payments by colleges and athletic conferences to college athletes for use of the athletes' identities. The emergency act took effect after approval on May 19, 2025, and expired August 17, 2025.
The act held off applying a financial disclosure rule. The rule concerned expanded financial disclosures for certain D.C. boards and commissions. The rule was set not to apply before January 1, 2026, but the emergency act expired August 17, 2025.
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- Passed 1st Chamber
- Passed 2nd Chamber
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- May 23Act A26-0069 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 006112, Expires on Aug 17, 2025Latest
- May 20Returned from Mayor
- May 19Signed by the Mayor and Enacted with Act Number A26-0069, Expires on Aug 17, 2025Became Law
- May 9Transmitted to Mayor, Response Due on May 23, 2025To Governor
- May 6Final ReadingMinor
- Vote recorded Final Reading. Result: pass.Legislature
- May 6Retained by the Council
- May 5B26-0239 Introduced by Chairman Mendelson at Office of the SecretaryIntroduced
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