California Senators Seek to Update State's NIL Law

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Nancy Skinner, the California state legislator who wrote what became the first state law designed to allow college athletes to make money from their name, image and likeness, introduced a bill Monday that would expand the law’s impact and could hasten potential conflicts between state statutes and NCAA rules.

As reported by USA Today, the law already includes provisions that are less restrictive than proposed name-image-and-likeness (NIL) rules changes that the NCAA unveiled last month in preparation for a vote in January 2021. Skinner's new bill could create additional differences, and it would make the law effective as soon as Aug. 1, 2021 — 17 months earlier than the current date. Specifically, the bill would change the law’s effective date to either Jan. 1, 2022, or on the start date of the NCAA’s NIL rules changes. As currently proposed, that would be Aug. 1, 2021.

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