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Bill	Collegiate athletics: student athlete compensation and representation.	Existing law prohibits California postsecondary educational institutions except community colleges, and every athletic association, conference, or other group or organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics, from providing a prospective intercollegiate student athlete with compensation in relation to the athlete's name, image, or likeness, or preventing a student participating in intercollegiate athletics from earning compensation as a result of the use of the student's name, image, or likeness or obtaining professional representation relating to the student's participation in intercollegiate athletics. Existing law prohibits an athletic association, conference, or other group or organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from preventing a postsecondary educational institution other than a community college from participating in intercollegiate athletics as a result of the compensation of a student athlete for the use of the student's name, image, or likeness. Existing law prohibits the revocation of a student's scholarship as a result of earning compensation or obtaining legal representation as authorized under these provisions. Existing law prohibits a student athlete from entering into a contract providing compensation to the athlete for use of the athlete's name, image, or likeness if a provision of the contract is in conflict with a provision of the athlete's team contract. Existing law prohibits a team contract from preventing a student athlete from using the athlete's name, image, or likeness for a commercial purpose when the athlete is not engaged in official team activities, as specified. Existing law makes these provisions operative on January 1, 2023.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 26	California SB 26 (20212022)	bill	Collegiate athletics: student athlete compensation and representation.	enacted	Skinner	7	30	10	2020-12-07	2021-08-31	openstates	ocd-bill/d77858d8-b635-4755-83de-0ffd2a3abc9e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB26	cd7d7b237bb28eaa599a7575e27c1188287f3e0afd1bacc4de4914f9b4f130d9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 26 (20212022) — Collegiate athletics: student athlete compensation and representation.

Existing law prohibits California postsecondary educational institutions except community colleges, and every athletic association, conference, or other group or organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics, from providing a prospective intercollegiate student athlete with compensation in relation to the athlete's name, image, or likeness, or preventing a student participating in intercollegiate athletics from earning compensation as a result of the use of the student's name, image, or likeness or obtaining professional representation relating to the student's participation in intercollegiate athletics. Existing law prohibits an athletic association, conference, or other group or organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from preventing a postsecondary educational institution other than a community college from participating in intercollegiate athletics as a result of the compensation of a student athlete for the use of the student's name, image, or likeness. Existing law prohibits the revocation of a student's scholarship as a result of earning compensation or obtaining legal representation as authorized under these provisions. Existing law prohibits a student athlete from entering into a contract providing compensation to the athlete for use of the athlete's name, image, or likeness if a provision of the contract is in conflict with a provision of the athlete's team contract. Existing law prohibits a team contract from preventing a student athlete from using the athlete's name, image, or likeness for a commercial purpose when the athlete is not engaged in official team activities, as specified. Existing law makes these provisions operative on January 1, 2023.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/31/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB26 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/27/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 26 Skinner Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB26 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB26 Skinner et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)
• Bradford — author (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7.
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-02-23 Set for hearing March 10.
• 2021-03-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 666.) (March 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 Set for hearing March 23.
• 2021-03-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 590.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2021-04-05 April 5 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1179.) (May 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-28 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1348.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-15 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-19 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2439.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-19 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-08-26 Urgency clause adopted.
• 2021-08-26 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2113.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-08-31 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-08-31 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 159, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d77858d8-b635-4755-83de-0ffd2a3abc9e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).