2025 bills / H.B. 479
H.B. 479 Student Athlete Revisions (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill lets Utah colleges and universities use certain funds to pay student athletes directly for the use of their name, image, or likeness, and gives institutions and athletes certain protections. It also requires each degree-granting school to adopt a policy on abusive coaching, have its board of trustees approve that policy, and report to the Education Interim Committee, and it requires the Board of Higher Education to undergo 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 Board of Higher Education
- requires a degree-granting institution to:
- adopt a policy addressing abusive coaching practices
- report to the Education Interim Committee
- requires a degree-granting institution's board of trustees to review and approve a degree-granting institution's policy on abusive coaching practices
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 479 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 479 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 1 no, 7 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 50 yes, 14 no, 11 absentFinal House vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 1 no, 1 absentSenate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
- 50 yes, 15 no, 10 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how