---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to athletics and declaring an emergency."
description: "Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide protections for student athletes seeking compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements or seeking an athlete agent; provide similar protections for institutions; establish prohibitions, conditions, and limitations on athletes earning compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements; prohibit name, image, and likeness compensation as an inducement; prohibit institutions, associations, or affiliated organizations from providing compensation for name, image, and likeness of a student athlete and other similar activities; establish a process for institutions to review name, image, and likeness agreements of student athletes; authorize institutions to establish reasonable restrictions on name, image, and likeness activities of student athletes; provide protections for institutions and their employees in actions taken in the course of administering intercollegiate athletics; require institutions to provide financial literacy and life skills education to student athletes; authorize institutions to provide ongoing support to student athletes and information on name, image, and likeness to the general public; establish that name, image, and likeness agreement documents and related information in possession of public postsecondary institutions are protected student records; limit applicability; limit duration of name, image, and likeness and agency contract agreements for minors and student athletes; amend KRS 164.6903 to conform; amend KRS 156.070 to forbid KHSAA member schools from authorizing student athlete use of school logo and similar property in the athlete's name, image, and likeness activities; authorize Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate regulations to enforce rules on name, image, and likeness; authorize agreements made pursuant to Executive Order 2021-418 for one year and nullify the executive order; EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2022RS"
identifier: "SB 6"
citation: "Kentucky SB 6 (2022RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Regulations and Proceedings", "Athletics", "Commerce", "Contracts", "Education", "Elementary and Secondary", "Education", "Higher", "Effective Dates", "Emergency", "Governor", "Licensing", "Public Records and Reports", "Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. McGarvey", "M. Wise", "W. Schroder", "W. Westerfield"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-11T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39230287-dc1d-4833-9803-a3ca1522ea2b"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb6.html"
source_hash: "c9e92374260437d0136817c008c2085a941c7a0fe11c5e04987a0e59cd36b77b"
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-ky"]
---

# Kentucky SB 6 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to athletics and declaring an emergency.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide protections for student athletes seeking compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements or seeking an athlete agent; provide similar protections for institutions; establish prohibitions, conditions, and limitations on athletes earning compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements; prohibit name, image, and likeness compensation as an inducement; prohibit institutions, associations, or affiliated organizations from providing compensation for name, image, and likeness of a student athlete and other similar activities; establish a process for institutions to review name, image, and likeness agreements of student athletes; authorize institutions to establish reasonable restrictions on name, image, and likeness activities of student athletes; provide protections for institutions and their employees in actions taken in the course of administering intercollegiate athletics; require institutions to provide financial literacy and life skills education to student athletes; authorize institutions to provide ongoing support to student athletes and information on name, image, and likeness to the general public; establish that name, image, and likeness agreement documents and related information in possession of public postsecondary institutions are protected student records; limit applicability; limit duration of name, image, and likeness and agency contract agreements for minors and student athletes; amend KRS 164.6903 to conform; amend KRS 156.070 to forbid KHSAA member schools from authorizing student athlete use of school logo and similar property in the athlete's name, image, and likeness activities; authorize Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate regulations to enforce rules on name, image, and likeness; authorize agreements made pursuant to Executive Order 2021-418 for one year and nullify the executive order; EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/sb6/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 12** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/22RS/documents/0012.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/sb6/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- PASS SB 6 W/ scs1 sfa1 — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- M. McGarvey — primary (person)
- M. Wise — primary (person)
- W. Schroder — primary (person)
- W. Westerfield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-11T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12T05:00:00+00:00** to Education (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Education (S)
- **2022-01-12T05:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2022-01-12T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Education (S)
- **2022-01-31T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Education (S)
- **2022-01-31T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Education (S)
- **2022-02-09T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09T05:00:00+00:00** floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-02-10T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 10, 2022
- **2022-02-10T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2022-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** to Education (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 03, 2022
- **2022-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 89-2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2022-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 12) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39230287-dc1d-4833-9803-a3ca1522ea2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).