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S3276 • 2026

Prohibits contracts for student-athlete's name, image, or likeness from remaining in effect beyond the date the student-athlete is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics.

Prohibits contracts for student-athlete's name, image, or likeness from remaining in effect beyond the date the student-athlete is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics.

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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
Corrado, Kristin M.
Last action
2026-02-02
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits contracts for student-athlete's name, image, or likeness from remaining in effect beyond the date the student-athlete is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics.

Prohibits contracts for student-athlete's name, image, or likeness from remaining in effect beyond the date the student-athlete is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits contracts for student-athlete's name, image, or likeness from remaining in effect beyond the date the student-athlete is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics.
  • Topic: Higher Education Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-02 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits contracts for student-athlete's name, image, or likeness from remaining in effect beyond the date the student-athlete is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics.
Topic:
Higher Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3276

SENATE, No. 3276

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 2, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� KRISTIN M. CORRADO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits contracts for student-athlete�s name,
image, or likeness from remaining in effect beyond the date the student-athlete
is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act

concerning student-athletes and supplementing
P.L.2025, c.110 (C.18A:3B-89.2 et seq.).

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Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a.� Notwithstanding any
other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, any contract into which a
student-athlete enters providing compensation to the student-athlete for use of
the student-athlete�s name, image, or likeness pursuant to section 2 of P.L.2025,
c.110 (C.18A:3B-89.3) shall not:

���� (1)�� remain in effect
beyond the date the student-athlete is no longer eligible
to participate in intercollegiate athletics
; or

���� (2)� require the
student-athlete to provide as consideration either of the following:

���� (a) any compensation the
student-athlete earns after the student-athlete is no longer eligible to
participate in intercollegiate athletics for use of the student-athlete's name,
image, or likeness; or

���� (b) �rights associated with
the use of the student-athlete�s name, image, or likeness after the
student-athlete is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate
athletics.

���� b.� Any provision of a
contract in which a student-athlete enters into pursuant to section 2 of
P.L.2025, c.110 (C.18A:3B-89.3) that is in violation of this section shall be
void.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits any
contract into which a student-athlete enters, providing compensation for use of
the student-athlete�s name, image, or likeness from:

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remaining in effect beyond the date the student-athlete is no
longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics; or

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requiring the student-athlete to provide as consideration either
of the following: any compensation the student-athlete earns after the
student-athlete is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate
athletics for use of the student-athlete�s name, image, or likeness; or rights
associated with the use of the student-athlete�s name, image, or likeness after
the student-athlete is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate
athletics.

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The bill stipulates that any provision of a contract in violation
of the provisions of the bill would be void.