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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-573
PROTECTING STUDENT ATHLETES' ECONOMIC FREEDOM
ACT OF 2024
JULY 5, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Ms. Foxx, from the Committee on Education and the Workforce,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 8534]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 8534) to prohibit a student athlete from
being considered an employee of an institution, a conference, or an
association based on participation in certain intercollegiate ath-
letics, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Protecting Student Athletes' Economic Freedom Act
of 2024.
SEC. 2. EMPLOYMENT STANDINGS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal or State law, a student athlete
(or former student athlete) may not be considered an employee of an institution, a
conference, or an association under any Federal or State law or regulation based on
participation of the student athlete (or former student athlete) in a varsity inter-
collegiate athletics program or a varsity intercollegiate athletics competition, or the
existence of rules or requirements for being a member of any varsity sports team.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) ASSOCIATION.-The term association means an organization that-
(A) has multiple conferences and institutions as members;
(B) arranges championships for varsity intercollegiate athletics programs;
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