---
type: "Bill"
title: "Collegiate athletics: student athlete compensation and representation."
description: "Existing law, known as the Student Athlete Bill of Rights, requires intercollegiate athletic programs at 4-year private universities or campuses of the University of California or the California State University that receive, as an average, $10,000,000 or more in annual revenue derived from media rights for intercollegiate athletics to comply with prescribed requirements relating to student athlete rights."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 206"
citation: "California SB 206 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Collegiate athletics: student athlete compensation and representation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d40f56f8-1b23-48c6-927a-a85293ee61e3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206"
source_hash: "98f89781dd46fca30452d4e5c9a20d11fae2a1d366f49336ef253d4d19a11fa7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 206 (20192020) — Collegiate athletics: student athlete compensation and representation.

Existing law, known as the Student Athlete Bill of Rights, requires intercollegiate athletic programs at 4-year private universities or campuses of the University of California or the California State University that receive, as an average, $10,000,000 or more in annual revenue derived from media rights for intercollegiate athletics to comply with prescribed requirements relating to student athlete rights.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/04/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20699INT)
2. **03/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20698AMD)
3. **03/25/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20697AMD)
4. **04/10/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20696AMD)
5. **04/30/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20695AMD)
6. **05/17/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20694AMD)
7. **06/20/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20693AMD)
8. **07/11/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20692AMD)
9. **09/03/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20691AMD)
10. **09/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20689CHP)
11. **SB206** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206)
12. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206&version=20190SB20690ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SB206 Skinner et al. — **31–5** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **15–1** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB206 Skinner et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- SB 206 Skinner Senate Third Reading By Kamlager-Dove — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Skinner — primary (person)
- Bradford — author (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Chang — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hueso — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kamlager-Dove — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-04** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-05** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 7.
- **2019-02-13** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Set for hearing March 27.
- **2019-03-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** March 27 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-03-18** Set for hearing April 3.
- **2019-03-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 547.) (April 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-10** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2019-04-25** April 29 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2019-04-30** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-05-10** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2019-05-17** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1092.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 5. Page 1222.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-07-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-14** August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3198.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2823.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2019-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 383, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d40f56f8-1b23-48c6-927a-a85293ee61e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).