ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Tehmi Chassion
Last action: 2026-05-29
Official status: Adopted in House concurrence
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Checked against official source text during the last sync.

Confidentiality for College Athletics Documents

This bill makes certain documents and financial details related to college athletics revenue sharing programs private, not public.

What This Bill Does

Makes personal contract information between athletes and colleges confidential.
Keeps specific athlete payment amounts from being made public.
Hides how much money goes to each sport or athletic program within a school.
Protects negotiation documents used when making deals with college athletes.

Who It Names or Affects

College athletes
Colleges and universities that have sports programs
People who want to see public records about college sports finances

Terms To Know

Intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program: A plan where a school shares money from its sports programs with athletes or teams.
Public Records Law: Rules that say what information the government must make available to the public.

Limits and Unknowns

Does not specify when the bill will take effect.
The exact details of how this law will be enforced are unclear.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

Summary of Senate Amendments to HB608

Filed

Plain English: The amendment to HB608 makes documents and information related to intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing programs confidential, including specific athlete payments, sport allocations, and negotiation processes.

Makes all records, documents, and information about an institution's athletics revenue sharing program confidential from the effective date of the law onwards.
Includes retroactive application for existing or pending requests for disclosure as of the effective date.

The amendment text does not specify how confidentiality will be enforced or what penalties might apply if it is violated.

House Committee Amendment #2996 EDUC Adopted

Adopted

Plain English: The amendment changes how certain documents and information related to intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing programs at postsecondary education institutions must be handled, making some details confidential.

Makes the total amount of revenue funds paid to specific athletes or allocated to specific sports within an athletics revenue sharing program confidential.
Declares that any document created during negotiations with athletes as part of a revenue sharing program is also confidential.

The amendment does not specify all details about the implementation and enforcement of these confidentiality rules.

House Committee Amendment #2920 EDUC Draft

Draft

Makes the total amount of revenue funds paid to specific athletes or allocated to specific sports within an athletics revenue-sharing program confidential.
Declares that any document created during negotiations with athletes as part of a revenue-sharing program is also confidential.

The amendment text does not specify all the details about how these confidentiality rules will be enforced or what exceptions might apply.

House Vote on HB 608 CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1691)

Filed

Plain English: The amendment to HB608 deals with agreeing to changes made by the Senate regarding confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program.

Agrees to Senate amendments concerning the confidentiality of documents in relation to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program.

The official amendment text does not provide specific details about what changes were made by the Senate, only that the House is voting to concur with those changes.

Senate Floor Amendment #3992 Foil Adopted

Adopted

Plain English: The amendment adds language to ensure that a new law about confidential documents related to intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing applies both in the future and back to past records.

Adds 'to provide for applicability' after 'records exception;' on page 1, line 4.
Inserts a new section on page 3 that clarifies the law will apply to all existing, created, or pending records from its effective date.

The exact impact of these changes on specific documents and requests is not detailed in the amendment text.

Bill History

2026-05-29 H
Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
2026-05-27 H
Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
2026-05-26 H
Received from the Senate with amendments.
2026-05-26 S
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 22 yeas and 13 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
2026-05-20 S
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
2026-05-19 S
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
2026-05-18 S
Reported favorably.
2026-04-27 S
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
2026-04-22 S
Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
2026-04-22 H
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
2026-04-22 H
Called from the calendar.
2026-04-21 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2026.
2026-04-21 H
Notice given.
2026-04-21 H
Read by title, returned to the calendar.
2026-04-20 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2026.
2026-04-15 H
Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
2026-04-14 H
Reported favorably (9-3).
2026-04-07 H
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
2026-04-01 H
Reported with amendments (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
2026-03-09 H
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
2026-02-27 H
First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
2026-02-26 H
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
2026-02-26 H
Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-1139 ENGROSSED
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 608
BY REPRESENTATIVE CHASSION
ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the confidentiality of documents related to an
intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 17:3703(M), relative to compensation for intercollegiate
3 athletics; to provide relative to an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program;
4 to provide relative to public records; to create a public records exception; and to
5 provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 17:3703(M) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 §3703. Intercollegiate athlete's compensation and rights; responsibilities of
9 postsecondary education institutions
10 * * *
11 M.(1) Any document disclosed by the an intercollegiate athlete to the
12 postsecondary education institution where he is enrolled that references the terms
13 and conditions of the athlete's his contract for compensation shall be confidential and
14 not subject to inspection, examination, copying, or reproduction pursuant to the
15 Public Records Law.
16 (2) The total amount of revenue expended by a postsecondary education
17 institution during each fiscal year as part of an intercollegiate athletics revenue
18 sharing program is subject to public disclosure. However, the following records and
19 information are not subject to public disclosure and not subject to inspection,
20 examination, copying, or reproduction pursuant to the Public Records Law:
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are additions.
HLS 26RS-1139 ENGROSSED
HB NO. 608
1 (a) The total amount, and any percentage amount, of those revenue funds
2 paid as part of a postsecondary education institution's athletics revenue sharing
3 program to any specific intercollegiate athlete.
4 (b) The total amount, and any percentage amount, of those revenue funds
5 allocated as part of a postsecondary education institution's athletics revenue sharing
6 program to any specific intercollegiate sport or athletic program.
7 (3) Any document related to or created as part of the process of negotiating
8 an agreement with an intercollegiate athlete as part of a postsecondary education
9 institution's intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program, including any
10 agreements entered into with any specific intercollegiate athlete, is confidential and
11 not subject to inspection, examination, copying, or reproduction pursuant to the
12 Public Records Law.
13 * * *
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 608 Engrossed 2026 Regular Session Chassion
Abstract: Provides that certain records relative to an intercollegiate athletics revenue
sharing program shall not be considered public records.
Present law (R.S. 44:4.1) provides a public records exception for present law (R.S. 17:3703)
relative to any document disclosed by an intercollegiate athlete to the postsecondary
education institution where he is enrolled as a student that references the terms and
conditions of his contract for compensation for the use of his name, image, and likeness.
Proposed law retains present law.
Proposed law adds public records exceptions for proposed law relative to the following:
(1) Revenue funds paid as part of an institution's athletics revenue sharing program to
a specific athlete.
(2) Revenue funds allocated as part of an institution's athletics revenue sharing program
to any specific sport or athletic program.
(3) Any document related to the process of negotiating an agreement with an
intercollegiate athlete as part of an intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program.
(Amends R.S. 17:3703(M))
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HLS 26RS-1139 ENGROSSED
HB NO. 608
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Education to the
original bill:
1. Add public record exceptions relative to certain revenue associated with an
intercollegiate athletics revenue sharing program.
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