CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 6286
66TH LEGISLATURE
2020 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the Senate February 18, 2020
  Yeas 45  Nays 2

President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 4, 2020
  Yeas 95  Nays 2

Speaker of the House of Representatives
CERTIFICATE
I, Brad Hendrickson, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6286 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

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Secretary
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Secretary of State
State of Washington

SENATE BILL 6286

Passed Legislature - 2020 Regular Session
State of Washington
66th Legislature
2020 Regular Session
BySenators Frockt, Pedersen, and Mullet; by request of Uniform Law Commission
Read first time 01/14/20.Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce.
AN ACT Relating to benefits provided by athlete agents; and amending RCW 19.225.100.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 19.225.100 and 2016 sp.s. c 13 s 10 are each amended to read as follows:
(((1))) An athlete agent((, with the intent to influence a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete to enter into an agency contract,)) may not ((take any of the following actions or encourage any other individual to take or assist any other individual in taking any of the following actions on behalf of the athlete agent:
(a)))intentionally:
(1) Give a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete materially false or misleading information or make a materially false promise or representation with the intent to influence the athlete, parent, or guardian to enter into an agency contract;
(((b)))(2) Furnish anything of value to ((the))a student athlete ((before the athlete enters into the contract; or
(c) Furnish anything of value to an individual other than the athlete or another registered athlete agent.
(2) An athlete agent may not intentionally do any of the following or encourage any other individual to do any of the following on behalf of the agent:
(a)))or another individual, if to do so may result in loss of the athlete's eligibility to participate in the athlete's sport, unless:
(a) The agent notifies the athletic director of the educational institution at which the athlete is enrolled or at which the agent has reasonable grounds to believe the athlete intends to enroll, not later than seventy-two hours after giving the thing of value; and
(b) The athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete acknowledges to the agent in a record that receipt of the thing of value may result in loss of the athlete's eligibility to participate in the athlete's sport;
(3) Initiate contact, directly or indirectly, with a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete, to recruit or solicit the athlete, parent, or guardian to enter an agency contract unless providing the athlete with the athlete agent disclosure form as provided in RCW 19.225.030;
(((b)))(4) Refuse or willfully fail to retain or produce in response to subpoena the records required by RCW 19.225.090;
(((c)))(5) Fail to disclose information required by RCW 19.225.040;
(((d)))(6) Provide materially false or misleading information in an athlete agent disclosure form;
(((e)))(7) Predate or postdate an agency contract;
(((f)))(8) Fail to notify a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete, before the athlete, parent, or guardian signs an agency contract for a particular sport that the signing may ((make the athlete ineligible))result in loss of the athlete's eligibility to participate ((as a student athlete in that))in the athlete's sport;
(((g)))(9) Encourage another individual to do any of the acts described in subsections (1) through (8) of this section on behalf of the agent;
(10) Encourage another individual to assist any other individual in doing any of the acts described in subsections (1) through (8) of this section on behalf of the agent;
(11) Ask or allow a student athlete to waive or attempt to waive rights under this chapter;
(((h)))(12) Fail to give notice required under RCW 19.225.070; or
(((i)))(13) Engage in the business of an athlete agent in this state: (((A)))(a) At any time after conviction under RCW 19.225.110; or (((B)))(b) within five years of entry of a civil judgment under RCW 19.225.120.
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