2025 bills / H.B. 449
H.B. 449 Student Athlete Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill lets public colleges and universities use certain funds to pay student athletes directly for the use of their name, image, or likeness. It also adds protections for schools and athletes and requires the Utah Board of Higher Education to conduct an audit.
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Official description
- defines terms
- makes technical and conforming changes
- allows an institution of higher education to use certain funds to compensate a student athlete directly for the use of the student athlete's name, image, or likeness
- provides certain protections to institutions and student athletes
- creates an audit requirement for the Utah Board of Higher Education
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- An alert the day H.B. 449 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 449 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 8 yes, 0 no, 8 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 2 no, 8 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 61 yes, 4 no, 10 absentFinal House vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how