Overview

• The executive order prohibits all third-party pay-for-play inducements to college athletes while maintaining fair-market NIL endorsement rights.
• It designates the Departments of Education, Justice, Labor, the FTC and the NLRB to develop enforcement and regulatory plans on the new policies.
• Athletic departments with high revenues must preserve or expand scholarships and roster spots for women’s and other non-revenue sports to prevent resource diversion.
• The order calls for federal clarification of student-athletes’ legal and employment status to address debates over collective bargaining and benefit rights.
• Specific enforcement mechanisms remain undefined, leaving the policy’s effectiveness contingent on forthcoming agency rulemaking.