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Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2827

E "Uniform Athlete Agents Act"; requiring and providing for the registration of
agents for intercollegiate student athletes with the commissioner of commerce,
exceptions, voiding contracts for failure to comply; prescribing the
registration process, specifying certain application and application content
requirements; providing for the acceptance of reciprocal applications or
renewals of registration or licensure certificates; specifying the authority of
the commissioner to issue registration certificates, authorizing refusal under
certain conditions and providing for renewal; authorizing the commissioner to
suspend, revoke or refuse to renew registrations for conduct justifying
registration denial, specifying certain notice and hearing requirements;
authorizing the issuance of temporary certificates during the registration
period; specifying certain registration and renewal fees; prescribing the form
and contents of the contract, nonconforming contracts to be voidable by the
student athlete; requiring a record of the contract to the student and agent and
student notice of the contract to the athletic director of the educational
institution of student enrollment; providing a nonwaivable student athlete right
to cancel, effect; specifying certain agent recordkeeping requirements, granting
the commissioner certain inspection rights; specifying certain agents prohibited
conduct, imposing criminal penalties for violation; granting educational
institutions a private right of action against athlete agents or former student
athletes for damages and imposing several liability on agents and former student
athletes; authorizing the commissioner to impose a civil penalty on agents for
certain violations, limit; providing for the effect, validity and enforceability
of electronic records or signatures; severability clause (mk, ja)