# Kentucky SB 3: AN ACT relating to student-athletes and declaring an emergency. Kentucky SB 3, AN ACT relating to student-athletes and declaring an emergency., is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Max Wise (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-03-13 (signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 10)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-SB3-2025RS - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kentucky SB 3 - State: Kentucky - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: AN ACT relating to student-athletes and declaring an emergency. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-02-18 - Last action: 2025-03-13, signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 10) - Sponsor: Max Wise (Republican) - Cosponsors: 1 - Subjects: Education, Finance, Education, Higher, Effective Dates, Emergency, Public Records and Reports, Universities and Colleges, Athletics - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 2 (135 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 6 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - College athletes’ agreements stay private: benefit, low. Kentucky’s public records law protects covered college athlete agreements from public disclosure. This covers institutional agreements and name, image, and likeness agreements submitted to public colleges for the required review. The law treats disclosure as an unwarranted invasion of personal priv… - College athlete pay faces financial limits: cost, low. Kentucky colleges and athletic associations can limit athletes’ name, image, and likeness pay to a prevailing market range. The range must reflect a valid business purpose promoting goods or services sold to the public for profit. Rates and terms must match comparable athletes who are not current o… - College athletes face limits on lawsuits: cost, low. Employees of college-affiliated corporations gain protection from damages for routine athletics decisions affecting athletes’ third-party endorsement earnings. That protection excludes gross negligence and wanton, willful, malicious, or intentional misconduct. Public colleges, their employees, agen… - School athletes face endorsement resource limits: cost, low. In Kentucky’s K–12 athletics system, member schools cannot grant athletes permission to use school property to earn endorsement money. The ban also covers school trademarks, uniforms, copyrights, and other intellectual property. Athletes cannot use those resources to earn money from their name, ima… - Athlete contracts need renewed consent: mixed, low. Parents or guardians can sign name, image, and likeness agreements or agency contracts for minors. Athletes must reaffirm those contracts within 30 days after turning 18, or the contracts are revoked. They must also reaffirm these contracts within 30 days after stopping sports participation at the… - College athletes face reviews with appeals: mixed, low. College athletes must submit proposed third-party name, image, and likeness agreements to a designated college official for review. Proposed changes must also go through review. The college has up to three business days to identify conflicts in writing. Its governing board must set submission and r… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Max Wise (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Donald Douglas (Republican), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-03-11 | House | 3rd reading, passed | pass | 97 | 0 | | | 2025-03-04 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed | pass | 38 | 0 | | ## Actions (21) - 2025-03-13: signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 10) - 2025-03-11: delivered to Governor - 2025-03-11: enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House (Senate) - 2025-03-11: enrolled, signed by President of the Senate (Senate) - 2025-03-11: received in Senate (Senate) - 2025-03-11: 3rd reading, passed 97-0 (House) - 2025-03-07: posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 11, 2025 (House) - 2025-03-07: 2nd reading, to Rules (House) - 2025-03-06: reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar (House) - 2025-03-05: to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H) (House) - 2025-03-05: to Committee on Committees (H) (House) - 2025-03-05: received in House (House) - 2025-03-04: 3rd reading, passed 38-0 (Senate) - 2025-02-27: posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 04, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-02-27: reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules (Senate) - 2025-02-26: returned to Education (S) (Senate) - 2025-02-26: 1st reading (Senate) - 2025-02-26: taken from Education (S) (Senate) - 2025-02-20: to Education (S) (Senate) - 2025-02-18: to Committee on Committees (S) (Senate) - 2025-02-18: introduced in Senate (Senate) ## Bill text - Current, 2025-03-04: [PDF](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb3/bill.pdf) - Introduced, 2025-03-04: [PDF](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb3/orig_bill.pdf) ## Related bills - HB 501: AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drugs. (became law) - HB 664: AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and declaring an emergency. (signed) - HB 606: AN ACT relating to economic development. (signed) - HB 421: AN ACT relating to colorectal cancer screenings. (signed) - HB 555: AN ACT relating to local government financial practices. (signed) - HB 493: AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles. (signed) ## Sources - [Current (PDF)](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb3/bill.pdf) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb3/orig_bill.pdf) ## Related - [HB 501: AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drugs.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB501-2025RS) - [HB 664: AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and declaring an emergency.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB664-2025RS) - [HB 606: AN ACT relating to economic development.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB606-2025RS) - [HB 421: AN ACT relating to colorectal cancer screenings.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB421-2025RS) - [HB 555: AN ACT relating to local government financial practices.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB555-2025RS) - [HB 493: AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB493-2025RS) - [Kentucky bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/kentucky/bills) - [Kentucky state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/kentucky) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-SB3-2025RS (as of 2026-10-17).