Major bill to set standards for college athletes’ pay on track to pass US Senate

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The Senate moved toward passing a bipartisan bill setting a national framework for college athlete compensation, giving the NCAA antitrust protections, creating a five-year eligibility window and barring pros from college sports. Adopted amendments would require disclosure of foreign funding over $600 and preserve state personal-injury and wrongful-death claims.

The bill heads next to a House that won't return until after the midterms. Senator Cruz called it an end to chaos in college sports, while Senator Booker countered that it was shaped by NCAA lobbying money and undermines the labor rights of athletes who are notably still not classified as employees.

President Trump has backed the measure, calling it 'great,' and the administration issued a statement of support in August. The Congressional Black Caucus and NAACP have opposed it, tying resistance to broader concerns about redistricting fights in Southern states.

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Everybody in this fight says they're the one saving college sports, which is usually the surest sign nobody agrees on what's being saved. A bill that both plays peacemaker between conferences and gets accused of being written by the NCAA's own lobbyists isn't exactly a neutral referee. The players whose sweat funds the whole enterprise still don't get a seat called employee, and that absence is doing a lot of quiet talking in this story.

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