IIB 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 361
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 5, 2003
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To designate certain conduct by sports agents relating to 
the signing of contracts with student athletes as unfair 
and deceptive acts or practices to be regulated by the 
Federal Trade Commission.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sports Agent Respon-
sibility and Trust Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
As used in this Act, the following definitions apply: 
(1) AGENCY
CONTRACT.—The term ‘‘agency 
contract’’ means an oral or written agreement in 
which a student athlete authorizes a person to nego-
tiate or solicit on behalf of the student athlete a pro-
fessional sports contract or an endorsement contract. 
(2) ATHLETE
AGENT.—The term ‘‘athlete 
agent’’ means an individual who enters into an agen-
cy contract with a student athlete, or directly or in-
directly 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, any legal counsel for purposes 
other than that of representative agency, or an indi-
vidual acting solely on behalf of a professional sports 
team or professional sports organization. 
(3) ATHLETIC DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘athletic 
director’’ means an individual responsible for admin-
istering the athletic program of an educational insti-
tution or, in the case that such program is adminis-
tered separately, the athletic program for male stu-
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dents or the athletic program for female students, as 
appropriate. 
(4) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Trade Commission. 
(5) ENDORSEMENT CONTRACT.—The term ‘‘en-
dorsement contract’’ means an agreement under 
which a student athlete is employed or receives con-
sideration for the use by the other party of that in-
dividual’s person, name, image, or likeness in the 
promotion of any product, service, or event. 
(6) 
INTERCOLLEGIATE
SPORT.—The 
term 
‘‘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 regula-
tion of college athletics. 
(7) PROFESSIONAL
SPORTS
CONTRACT.—The 
term ‘‘professional sports contract’’ means an agree-
ment under which an individual is employed, or 
agrees to render services, as a player on a profes-
sional sports team, with a professional sports organi-
zation, or as a professional athlete. 
(8) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ includes a State 
of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puer-
to Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any
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territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdic-
tion of the United States. 
(9) STUDENT
ATHLETE.—The term ‘‘student 
athlete’’ means an individual who engages in, is eli-
gible 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 par-
ticular intercollegiate sport is not a student athlete 
for purposes of that sport. 
SEC. 3. REGULATION OF UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE ACTS 
AND PRACTICES IN CONNECTION WITH THE 
CONTACT BETWEEN AN ATHLETE AGENT AND 
A STUDENT ATHLETE. 
(a) CONDUCT PROHIBITED.—It is unlawful for an 
athlete agent to—
(1) directly or indirectly recruit or solicit a stu-
dent athlete to enter into an agency contract, by—
(A) giving any false or misleading informa-
tion or making a false promise or representa-
tion; or 
(B) providing anything of value to a stu-
dent athlete or anyone associated with the stu-
dent athlete before the student athlete enters 
into an agency contract, including any consider-
ation in the form of a loan, or acting in the ca-
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notice, warning, and security, and the provisions for reci-
procity among the States.
Passed the House of Representatives June 4, 2003. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.