SB 3263: UH; STUDENT-ATHLETES; COMPENSATION; NIL; POLICIES; INDEPENDENT ADVISORS; PROTECTIONS; EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT; APPROPRIATION
- Session Year: 2025-2026
- House: Senate
- Latest Version Date: 2026-05-02
Current Status:
In Progress
(2026-05-08: Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 889).)
Introduced
In Committee
First Chamber
In Committee
Second Chamber
Final Decking
Enacted
Affirms
student-athletes' rights to engage in name, image, and likeness activities for
compensation. Requires the
University of Hawaii to adopt policies governing institutional name, image, and
likeness agreements and other aspects of name, image, and likeness activity
consistent with federal law, rules by an intercollegiate athletics governing
body such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and Title IX. Allows student-athletes to retain
professional representation for the purpose of name, image, and likeness
activities. Establishes certain
transparency and accountability requirements in the administration of
institutional name, image, and likeness activities. Provides protections and educational support
for student-athletes who enter into name, image, and likeness agreements. Establishes an endowment fund for the name,
image, and likeness program. Appropriates
funds into the endowment fund. Sunsets
6/30/2030. (CD1)