SCORE Act and Five Related Bills on Student Athletes, Education Content, and Regulatory Reform

H. Res. 916 · H.R. 2965, H.R. 4305, H.R. 4312, and 3 more

This rule currently governs H.R. 2965, H.R. 4305, H.R. 4312, and 3 more.

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Overview

Floor outcome, , and debate structure.

Floor adoption

210-209

Floor vote date

Dec 2, 2025

h309-1-119

7-4

210-205

one hour of general debate equally divided among and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and Workforce or their respective designees and the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce or their respective designees.

Committee motion

Motion by Mr. Griffith to report the rule. Adopted: 7-4

Who Ran The Debate?

Measures Governed

The bills and resolutions linked to this special rule entry.

H.R. 2965

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Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025

H.R. 4305

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DUMP Red Tape Act

H.R. 4312

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SCORE Act

H.R. 1005

Rule Instructions

Numbered parsed from the source rule text.

No.	Provision text
2	Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
3	Provides that, in lieu of the amendments in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committees on Education and Workforce and Energy and Commerce now printed in the bill, an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 119-14 shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
4	Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
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Rules Committee Vote

Recorded votes on the .

Member	Vote	Party bloc
Mr. Austin Scott	yea	Majority
Mr. Jack	yea	Majority

Amendment	Sponsor	Summary
1	Trahan (MA)	SUBSTITUTE Grants college athletes unrestricted rights to monetize their names, images, and likenesses, seek professional representation, and protect their privacy. Establishes in the legislative branch a bipartisan commission to explore topics related to governance and revenue in college athletics.
2	Sykes (OH)	Strikes section 10 that bars students from collective bargaining.
3	Tonko (NY)	Bans proposition bets on amateur or intercollegiate sport competitions.
4	Lee (PA)	Removes the Employment Standing section of the bill, which would otherwise prohibit college athletes from being considered employees.
5	Baumgartner (WA)	Disqualifies institutions and conferences that enter into defined private capital or sovereign wealth agreements involving athletics revenues or control from the Act's liability limitation. Clarifies that such arrangements remain permissible but operate outside the federal antitrust safe harbor established by the Act.
6	Baumgartner (WA)	Clarifies that rules collecting revenues subject to the pool cap and redistributing them to institutions on a fixed per-athlete basis across all sports fall within the liability limitation. Authorizes protected rules to define, audit, and enforce varsity roster standards used to calculate those per-capita distributions.
7	Baumgartner (WA)	Prohibits conferences that benefit from the liability limitation from scheduling or requiring regular-season contests that obligate varsity teams to travel beyond a specified geographic radius from campus, subject to defined exceptions. Authorizes exceptions for postseason championships, voluntary non-conference contests between distant institutions, and institutions in Alaska, Hawaii, or similarly situated locations.
8	Baumgartner (WA)	Requires institutions that provide compensation under this Act to distribute such institution-funded compensation in equal amounts to all eligible student-athletes at that institution. Prohibits variation in institution-funded compensation based on sex, sport, position, performance, or market value.
9	Baumgartner (WA)	Requires an intercollegiate athletic association to cap the total yearly pay for any athletics department employee --including head coaches -- at no more than 10 times the average cost of attendance at the top schools used to set the pool limit, and counts as pay all salary, bonuses, buyouts, deferred compensation, and payments made through related entities.
10	Adams (NC)	Expands data reporting requirements for college athletic programs disaggregated by sex.
11	Adams (NC)	Prohibits intercollegiate athletic associations from discriminating on the basis of sex in rulemaking, requirements for membership, facilities, and pay-sharing agreements.

Amendment

Sponsor

Summary

Trahan (MA)

SUBSTITUTE Grants college athletes unrestricted rights to monetize their names, images, and likenesses, seek professional representation, and protect their privacy. Establishes in the legislative branch a bipartisan commission to explore topics related to governance and revenue in college athletics.

Sykes (OH)

Strikes section 10 that bars students from collective bargaining.

Tonko (NY)

Bans proposition bets on amateur or intercollegiate sport competitions.

Lee (PA)

Removes the Employment Standing section of the bill, which would otherwise prohibit college athletes from being considered employees.

Baumgartner (WA)

Disqualifies institutions and conferences that enter into defined private capital or sovereign wealth agreements involving athletics revenues or control from the Act's liability limitation. Clarifies that such arrangements remain permissible but operate outside the federal antitrust safe harbor established by the Act.

Baumgartner (WA)

Clarifies that rules collecting revenues subject to the pool cap and redistributing them to institutions on a fixed per-athlete basis across all sports fall within the liability limitation. Authorizes protected rules to define, audit, and enforce varsity roster standards used to calculate those per-capita distributions.

Baumgartner (WA)

Prohibits conferences that benefit from the liability limitation from scheduling or requiring regular-season contests that obligate varsity teams to travel beyond a specified geographic radius from campus, subject to defined exceptions. Authorizes exceptions for postseason championships, voluntary non-conference contests between distant institutions, and institutions in Alaska, Hawaii, or similarly situated locations.

Baumgartner (WA)

Requires institutions that provide compensation under this Act to distribute such institution-funded compensation in equal amounts to all eligible student-athletes at that institution. Prohibits variation in institution-funded compensation based on sex, sport, position, performance, or market value.

Baumgartner (WA)

Requires an intercollegiate athletic association to cap the total yearly pay for any athletics department employee --including head coaches -- at no more than 10 times the average cost of attendance at the top schools used to set the pool limit, and counts as pay all salary, bonuses, buyouts, deferred compensation, and payments made through related entities.

Adams (NC)

Expands data reporting requirements for college athletic programs disaggregated by sex.

Adams (NC)

Prohibits intercollegiate athletic associations from discriminating on the basis of sex in rulemaking, requirements for membership, facilities, and pay-sharing agreements.