CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5913
68TH LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the Senate January 31, 2024
  Yeas 47  Nays 1

President of the Senate
Passed by the House February 27, 2024
  Yeas 92  Nays 2

Speaker of the House of Representatives
CERTIFICATE
I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5913 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Secretary
Secretary
Approved
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Secretary of State
State of Washington

SENATE BILL 5913

Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington
68th Legislature
2024 Regular Session
BySenators Valdez, MacEwen, Hunt, and Nobles
Prefiled 12/28/23.Read first time 01/08/24.Referred to Committee on State Government & Elections.
AN ACT Relating to communication between employees of state institutions of higher education and student athletes regarding name, image, and likeness use; and adding a new section to chapter 42.52 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 42.52 RCW to read as follows:
This chapter does not prohibit the use of public resources, including but not limited to the use of personnel, money, and property, by an employee of a state institution of higher education to benefit any student athlete in the advising, facilitation, acknowledgment, or education related to a matter involving the name image and likeness of such a student athlete or group of student athletes, or in relation to student athlete name image and likeness matters generally, so long as such resources are under the control or direction of such an employee. Any use of public resources must adhere to the rules established by the national, nonprofit member organization responsible for oversight of college sports at state institutions of higher education.
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