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Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The Constitution, Article 11, Section 13 provides that: 
SEC. 13. The State recognizes the vital role of the youth in nation- 
building and shall promote and protect their physical, moral, spiritual, 
intellectual and social well-being. 
We derive many of our country’s pride from world class performance of our athletes. To 
be competitive, we train our children young and build on their potentials in the course of their 
development. Our educational institutions have played a significant role in nurturing our young 
talents while also providing them good education that they may have other options in life outside 
of sports. However, sports is also a business from where athletes and their families pin their 
hopes on striking a fortune. Poverty and ignorance, in many instances, have made these athletes 
and families easy prey for unscrupulous sports agents who promise them the world without fully 
informing them of the consequences of engaging their services. 
We provide a legislation which will curb the deceptive practice of the sports agents in 
signing student athletes and allow the educational institutions to be informed of such contracts 
and be protected from its effects. 
This bill seeks to regulate the conduct of athlete agents and require disclosure of agency 
contracts to the educational institutions. 


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FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC) 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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Second Regular Session 
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Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
AN ACT 
TO REGULATE CERTAIN CONDUCT BY SPORTS AGENTS RELATING TO THE 
SIGNING OF CONTRACTS WITH STUDENT 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Sports Agent Responsibility 
and Trust Act.” 
SECTION 2. Definition. -As used in this Act, the term - 
A. AGENCY CONTRACT- means an oral or written agreement in which a student athlete 
authorizes a person to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the student athlete a professional 
sports contract or an endorsement contract. 
B. ATHLETE AGENT- means an individual who enters into an agency contract with a 
student athlete, or directly or indirectly recruits or solicits a student athlete to enter into 
an agency contract, and does not include a spouse, parent, sibling, grandparent, or 
guardian of such student athlete, or an individual acting solely on behalf of a professional 
sports team or professional sports organization. 
C. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR- means an individual responsible for administering the athletic 
program of an educational institution or, in the case that such program is administered 
separately, the athletic program for male students or the athletic program for female 
students, as appropriate. 
D. ENDORSEMENT CONTRACT- means an agreement under which a student athlete is 
employed or receives consideration for the use by the other party of that individual’s 
person, name, image, or likeness in the promotion of any product, service, or event, 
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E. INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORT- means a sport played at the collegiate level for which 
eligibility requirements for participation by a student athlete are established by a national 
association for the promotion or regulation of college athletics. 
F. PROFESSIONAL SPORTS CONTRACT- means an agreement under which an 
individual is employed, or agrees to render services, as a player on a professional sports 
team, with a professional sports organization, or as a professional athlete. 
G. STUDENT ATHLETE- means an individual who engages in, is eligible to engage in, or 
may be eligible in the future to engage in, any intercollegiate sport. An individual who is 
permanently ineligible to participate in a particular intercollegiate sport is not a student 
athlete for purposes of that sport. 
SECTION 3. Prohibited Conduct - It is unlawful for an athlete agent to- 
A. directly or indirectly recruit or solicit a student athlete to enter into an agency contract, 
by- 
1. giving any false or misleading information or making a false promise or 
representation; or 
2. providing anything of value to a student athlete or anyone associated with the 
student athlete before the student athlete enters into an agency contract; 
B. enter into an agency contract with a student athlete without providing the student 
athlete with the disclosure document described in Section 4; or 
C. or postdate an agency contract. 
SECTION 4 Disclosure By Athlete Agents To Student Athletes. - h conjunction with the 
entering into of an agency contract, an athlete agent shall provide to the student athlete, or, if the 
student athlete is under the age of 18 to such student athlete's parent or legal guardian, a 
disclosure document that meets the requirements of this Act. Such disclosure document is 
separate from and in addition to any other disclosure as may be required by law. 
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SECTION 5 .  Signature of Student Athlete. - The disclosure document must be signed by 
the student athlete, or, if the student athlete is under the age of 18 by such student athlete's parent 
or legal guardian, prior to entering into the agency contract. 
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SECTION 6. Required Language. - The disclosure document must contain, in close 
proximity to the signature of the student athlete, or, if the student athlete is under the age of 18, 
the signature of such student athlete's parent or legal guardian, a conspicuous notice in boldface 
type stating: 'Warning to Student Athlete: If you agree orally or in writing to be 
represented by an agent now or in the future yon may lose your eligibility to compete as a 
student athlete in your sport. Within 72 hours after entering into this contract or before the 
next athletic event in which you are eligible to participate, whichever occurs first, both you 
and the agent by whom you are agreeing to be represented must notify the athletic director 
of the educational institution at which you are enrolled, or other individual responsible for 
athletic programs at such educational institution, that you have entered into an agency 
contract.'. 
SECTION 7. Notice to Educational Institutions. - Within 72 hours after entering into an 
agency contract or before the next athletic event in which the student athlete may participate, 
whichever occurs first, the athlete agent and the student athlete shall each inform the athletic 
director of the educational institution at which the student athlete is enrolled, or other individual 
responsible for athletic programs at such educational institution, that the student athlete has 
entered into an agency contract, and the athlete agent shall provide the athletic director with 
notice in writing of such a contract. Such notice shall contain a waiver that protects the 
educational institutions from any action that may arise as a result of entering into such contract. 
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SECTION 8. Penalty. - Any person who shall violate the provisions of this Act shall 
upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than One thousand pesos (P1,000.00) but not 
more than fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00) or imprisonment of not less than two (2) months but 
not more than one (1) year, or both upon the discretion of the court. 
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SECTION 9. Rules. - The Department of Education shall promulgate rules upon 
consultation with the Philippine Sports Commission to ensure compliance with this Act. 
SECTION 10. Separability Clause. - If any provision or part hereof, is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the provision not otherwise affected shall remain 
valid and subsisting. 
SECTION 11. Repealing Clause. - Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive 
order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to or is inconsistent 
with the provision of this Act is hereby repealed, modified, or amended accordingly. 
SECTION 12. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
lapm012309 
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