republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1518.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Student athletes: contracts."
description: "Existing law, the Miller-Ayala Athlete Agents Act, regulates various activities of an athlete agent in representing student athletes and professional athletes, including contact with athletes, contract negotiations, and required disclosures with the Secretary of State. Existing law removes an individual's status as a student athlete, if they enter into a valid agent contract, a valid endorsement contract, or a valid professional sports services contract. Existing law prohibits an athlete agent or their representative from offering or providing money or any other thing of benefit or value to a student athlete."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1518"
citation: "California AB 1518 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Student athletes: contracts."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chu"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-09-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07f6eabc-e824-40f2-b966-6f14e60fdb5b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1518"
source_hash: "22007589d19415ff237e642225c2b18c12127499e8233679ed44fe2e498ce741"
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 AB 1518 (20192020) — Student athletes: contracts.

Existing law, the Miller-Ayala Athlete Agents Act, regulates various activities of an athlete agent in representing student athletes and professional athletes, including contact with athletes, contract negotiations, and required disclosures with the Secretary of State. Existing law removes an individual's status as a student athlete, if they enter into a valid agent contract, a valid endorsement contract, or a valid professional sports services contract. Existing law prohibits an athlete agent or their representative from offering or providing money or any other thing of benefit or value to a student athlete.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1518&version=20190AB151899INT)
2. **05/22/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1518&version=20190AB151898AMD)
3. **07/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1518&version=20190AB151897AMD)
4. **09/04/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1518&version=20190AB151895CHP)
5. **AB1518** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1518)
6. **08/20/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1518&version=20190AB151896ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1518 Chu Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1518 Chu Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-04-29** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1515.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D., ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 3). Re-referred to Com. on ED. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2182.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2748.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-09-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 222, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07f6eabc-e824-40f2-b966-6f14e60fdb5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).