Prohibiting postsecondary educational institutions from using or commingling state moneys or student fees to compensate a collegiate student athlete for the use of the athlete's name, image, likeness rights or athletic reputation.

Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2800
By Committee on Appropriations
Requested by Representative Helgerson
3-18
AN ACT concerning state moneys; relating to postsecondary educational
institutions; prohibiting the use of state moneys and student fees from
being expended or commingled with funds used for the purposes of
compensating a collegiate student athlete for the use of the athlete's
name, image, likeness rights or athletic reputation.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) No state moneys appropriated by the legislature to a
postsecondary educational institution shall be expended or commingled
with funds expended for the purposes of compensating a collegiate student
athlete for the use of the athlete's name, image, likeness rights or athletic
reputation.
(b) No student fees shall be charged, collected, expended or
commingled with funds expended by any postsecondary educational
institution for the purposes of compensating a collegiate student athlete for
the use of the athlete's name, image, likeness rights or athletic reputation.
(c) As used in this section:
(1) "Collegiate student athlete" or "athlete" means an individual
participating in varsity intercollegiate athletics at the collegiate level for
which eligibility requirements for participation by an athlete are
established by an athletic association that promotes or regulates collegiate
athletics and who is registered for courses at a postsecondary educational
institution required for such participation.
(2) "Postsecondary educational institution" means a technical college,
municipal university, community college, state educational institution,
private postsecondary educational institution and any not-for-profit
corporation controlled by a college, university or institution for the sole
purpose of operating the college, university or institution's athletic
program.
(3) "State moneys" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 75-4201,
and amendments thereto.
(4) "Student fees" means any student activity fees, special fees and
other fees that are charged to students attending a postsecondary
educational institution and the revenue generated from such fees.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
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