Overview

• The executive order bans third-party pay-for-play NIL deals and directs Education, Justice, HHS and FTC officials to draft elimination plans within 30 days.
• Athletic departments must meet new revenue-based scholarship and roster thresholds to preserve and expand women’s and non-revenue sports.
• The Labor Department and National Labor Relations Board have been tasked with clarifying student-athlete employment status amid ongoing labor-law debates.
• The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission are required to formulate litigation guidelines within 60 days to shield college athletics from antitrust and related legal challenges.
• Distribution of the $2.8 billion House-v-NCAA NIL settlement is paused pending a Ninth Circuit Title IX appeal, while the bipartisan SCORE Act awaits a House floor vote.