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The bill strengthens transparency and reduces foreign influence in college athletics and related programs, but does so by imposing significant legal, financial, and administrative burdens on institutions and risks harming students, athletes, and some international students.
Students and colleges: reduces foreign-government influence on campus athletics and covered programs by banning foreign-government-linked funding and prohibited NIL/media arrangements.
Schools and taxpayers: requires annual disclosures and reporting of foreign solicitations to Treasury/CFIUS and Education, increasing transparency about foreign funding and enabling oversight.
Student‑athletes, institutions, and conferences: provides clearer legal definitions and a compliance/remediation framework for covered athletes and activities, reducing contractual ambiguity and helping institutions resolve violations and regain eligibility.
Students and institutions: institutions that violate the ban risk losing Title IV eligibility until compliance reports are accepted, threatening federal student aid and students' ability to pay tuition.
Schools, private partners, and taxpayers: treating violations as IEEPA offenses exposes institutions and partners to severe civil and criminal penalties and litigation, substantially increasing legal risk and compliance costs.
Student‑athletes: a one‑year suspension for violating the prohibition risks sidelining athletes, jeopardizing scholarships and athletic careers.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Bars foreign-government-controlled entities from funding NIL deals or materially financing college-sports contracts, requires annual federal disclosures, and ties violations to IEEPA penalties and Title IV consequences.
Official title: To prohibit foreign investment in relation to name, image, and likeness agreements, and for other purposes.
Introduced February 5, 2026 by Blake D. Moore · Last progress February 5, 2026
Prohibits foreign nationals and foreign-country entities (including foreign-government-controlled entities) from providing money or in-kind benefits for college athlete name, image, and likeness (NIL) agreements or otherwise financing, owning, or materially participating in covered college-sports contracts. Requires colleges, conferences, media-rights distributors, and bowl/postseason organizations to document and disclose solicitations and any foreign-country financial relationships to federal authorities, creates investigatory and enforcement authority for the Attorney General (with the Secretary of Education and Treasury/CFIUS coordination), and ties violations to civil/criminal penalties under IEEPA and to loss of Title IV eligibility for institutions until they remediate. Applies to revenue-generating NCAA Division I men’s and women’s athletics activity, mandates institutional policies (including a 1-year athletic suspension for student-athletes who accept prohibited foreign funds), annual notice to student-athletes, annual disclosures to Treasury and Education, and appeals and compliance reporting processes for institutions found in violation.