---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"MS Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act\" and \"Uniform Athletes Agent Act\"; bring forward."
description: "\"MS Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act\" and \"Uniform Athletes Agent Act\"; bring forward."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2517"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2517 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce1ab37d-430f-47e5-a3a2-cabc1ef45b79"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/Senate_authors/Boyd.xml"
source_hash: "d9e2c2054a5b0ab80b063a58ef763b962e3417e40f67da38700c662f335200f2"
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-ms"]
---

# Mississippi SB 2517 (2025) — "MS Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act" and "Uniform Athletes Agent Act"; bring forward.

## Version chain

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

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2517IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2517** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2517.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2517PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2517_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2517SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **111–5** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **101–11** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Boyd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: UC To AC
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AC To UC
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Boyd,Williams,McCaughn
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Scoggin,Bounds,Ford (54th)
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Scoggin, Holloway (76th))
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce1ab37d-430f-47e5-a3a2-cabc1ef45b79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).