Earlier this month, Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed a bill allowing athletes to profit off of their name, image and likeness. Multiple states have signed similar bills into law, including those like Florida, Alabama and South Carolina among 13 others.
This week, Sens. Chris Murphy and Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to congress called the College Athlete Right to Organize Act, which would allow some college athletes to unionize and classify as employees.
Here’s a summary of the legislation:
“College athletes are already treated like employees: They provide a valuable service in exchange for compensation in the form of scholarships and grants-in-aid that they lose if they do not perform the job as specified by their colleges,” This past year made this distinction even clearer, as college athletes continued to work and perform while their peers often were not on campus.