Overview

• The executive order bans third-party pay-for-play inducements to student-athletes while expressly allowing fair-market compensation for brand endorsements.
• It directs the Department of Labor and National Labor Relations Board to clarify whether collegiate athletes qualify as employees under federal law.
• Revenue-sharing agreements must protect and expand scholarship opportunities and roster spots in women’s and non-revenue sports.
• The Departments of Education, Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have 30 days to develop regulatory and enforcement strategies to implement the order.
• With enforcement mechanisms still undefined, the directive represents the most aggressive federal intervention in NCAA policy to date.