Name, Image, and Likeness for International Collegiate Athletes Act

3.0.0 3054 2025-12-05T09:16:58Z 2025-12-05T09:16:58Z Senate S S 2023-10-17 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3054 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-10-17T17:39:53Z Name, Image, and Likeness for International Collegiate Athletes Act 118 7982 HR 2024-04-15 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Identical bill CRS 2023-10-17 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2023-10-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000618 Sen. Ricketts, Pete [R-NE] Pete Ricketts R NE N B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2023-10-17 True Immigration Immigration 2023-10-27T20:53:08Z

00 2023-10-17 Introduced in Senate 2024-08-23T14:57:52Z Name, Image, and Likeness for International Collegiate Athletes ActThis bill makes nonimmigrant student visas (F visas) available to college athletes who enter into endorsement contracts involving the individual’s name, image, or likeness.The visa is available to individuals enrolled in a U.S. institution of higher education who intend to contract for the commercial use of their name, image, or likeness (i.e., endorsement contracts). The bill authorizes the visa holder to obtain employment authorization for the purpose of engaging in activities related to such contracts. (Under current law, student visa holders must obtain employment authorization to perform off-campus work. The off-campus work must either be related to the student’s field of study or in response to severe economic hardship due to unforeseen circumstances, subject to further requirements.)The Department of Homeland Security may engage the student's institution of higher education in oversight of the student's employment activity.

Name, Image, and Likeness for International Collegiate Athletes Act Display Title 45 Name, Image, and Likeness for International Collegiate Athletes Act 2024-07-24T15:20:10Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Name, Image, and Likeness for International Collegiate Athletes Act 2024-05-24T13:35:55Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide F visas and employment authorization for international student athletes who enter into endorsement contracts for the commercial use of their names, images, and likenesses. 2023-10-20T07:28:46Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s3054is/xml/BILLS-118s3054is.xml 2023-10-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.