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Senator says key piece of college sports legislation ‘probably’ has 60 votes to clear upper chamber
Eric Schmitt said the Protect College Sports Act likely has enough support to clear the Senate as conference leaders negotiate changes.
- On Friday, Sen. Eric Schmitt said the Protect College Sports Act likely has 60 Senate votes, the threshold needed to advance the bill regulating college athlete name, image, and likeness payments.
- Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., introduced the legislation to provide the NCAA and conferences liability protection while preempting the patchwork of state laws governing NIL payments.
- In a letter last month, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey argued the bill's civil lawsuit provisions could increase litigation, suggesting the legislation might create more problems than it solves.
- Leaders from the Southeastern and Big Ten, who oppose the bill as written, are negotiating with sponsors to address concerns regarding the option for conferences to pool media rights.
- Schmitt called the next two weeks critical, warning that without the bill, "the trajectory of this in three years will be even further unrecognizable," predicting women's sports teams might fold.
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Senator says key piece of college sports legislation 'probably' has 60 votes to clear upper chamber
A lawmaker sponsoring a key piece of federal college sports legislation says he believes the bill likely has the support it needs to make it through the upper chamber.
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Protect College Sports Act gains momentum in U.S. Senate
A lawmaker sponsoring a key piece of federal college sports legislation said he believes the bill likely has the support it needs to make it through the upper chamber. “We probably have 60 votes,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said Friday at the Associated Press Sports Editors meeting. Schmitt called the next two weeks critical for the Protect College Sports Act. He said leaders from the Southeastern and Big Ten Conferences, both of which oppose …
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