Title: Athletics Fair Pay Act of 2019
Policy area: Sports and Recreation

Summary:
Athletics Fair Pay Act of 2019
This bill addresses pay equity for amateur athletes. It requires amateur sports national governing bodies to provide equitable wages and other compensation for women where separate programs for male and female athletes are conducted on a national basis.
The bill also requires a national governing body to report to Congress on the compensation of amateur athletes in the sport governed by such body for each of the two consecutive calendar years ending immediately before, and each calendar year beginning after, this bill's enactment.
Each report shall include (1) the median compensation for amateur athletes, disaggregated by race and gender; and (2) the minimum and maximum compensation paid to amateur athletes, disaggregated by race and gender.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2083 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2083

 To amend chapter 2205 of title 36, United States Code, to ensure pay 
          equity for amateur athletes, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 10, 2019

 Mrs. Feinstein (for herself and Mrs. Murray) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend chapter 2205 of title 36, United States Code, to ensure pay 
          equity for amateur athletes, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Athletics Fair Pay Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. PAY EQUITY FOR AMATEUR ATHLETES.

    (a) Equitable Compensation.--Section 220524(6) of title 36, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting ``, wages and other 
compensation,'' after ``support''.
    (b) Reports on Pay Equity.--
            (1) In general.--Subchapter II of chapter 2205 of such 
        title is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 220530A. Reports on pay equity
    ``(a) In General.--Each national governing body shall submit to 
Congress a report on the compensation of amateur athletes in the sport 
governed by the national governing body for--
            ``(1) each of the two consecutive calendar years ending 
        immediately before the date of the enactment of this section; 
        and
            ``(2) each calendar year beginning after the date of the 
        enactment of this section.
    ``(b) Matters To Be Included.--Each report required by subsection 
(a) shall include, with respect to the applicable sport, for the 
calendar year covered by the report--
            ``(1) the median compensation for amateur athletes, 
        disaggregated by race and gender; and
            ``(2) the minimum and maximum compensation paid to amateur 
        athletes, disaggregated by race and gender.''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--The table of sections for 
        chapter 2205 of title 36, United States Code, is amended by 
        adding at the end the following:

``Sec. 220530A. Reports on pay equity.''.
    (c) Retroactive Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection 
(a) shall take effect on the date that is 2 years before the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
    (d) Severability.--If any provision of this Act, an amendment made 
by this Act, or the application of such provision or amendment to any 
person or circumstance is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of 
this Act and the amendments made by this Act, and the application of 
the provision or amendment to any other person or circumstance, shall 
not be affected.
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