CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5913
Chapter 33, Laws of 2024
68TH LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
ETHICS ACT—ADVISING ON STUDENT ATHLETE NAME, IMAGE, AND LIKENESS
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2024
Passed by the Senate January 31, 2024
  Yeas 47  Nays 1
DENNY HECK
President of the Senate
Passed by the House February 27, 2024
  Yeas 92  Nays 2
LAURIE JINKINS
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.
SARAH BANNISTER
Secretary
Secretary
Approved March 13, 2024 11:24 AM
FILED
March 14, 2024
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington
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.
Passed by the Senate January 31, 2024.
Passed by the House February 27, 2024.
Approved by the Governor March 13, 2024.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 14, 2024.
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