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S.L.C.

116TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION

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To amend chapter 2205 of title 36, United States Code, to ensure pay
equity for amateur athletes, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
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Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself and Mrs. MURRAY) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
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A BILL
To amend chapter 2205 of title 36, United States Code,
to ensure pay equity for amateur athletes, and for other
purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-

2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Athletics Fair Pay Act

5 of 2019’’.
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SEC. 2. PAY EQUITY FOR AMATEUR ATHLETES.

(a) EQUITABLE COMPENSATION.—Section 220524(6)

8 of title 36, United States Code, is amended by inserting
9 ‘‘, wages and other compensation,’’ after ‘‘support’’.

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(b) REPORTS ON PAY EQUITY.—

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(1) IN

GENERAL.—Subchapter

II of chapter

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2205 of such title is amended by adding at the end

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the following:

5 ‘‘§ 220530A Reports on pay equity
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‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each national governing body

7 shall submit to Congress a report on the compensation of
8 amateur athletes in the sport governed by the national
9 governing body for—
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‘‘(1) each of the two consecutive calendar years

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ending immediately before the date of the enactment

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of this section; and

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‘‘(2) each calendar year beginning after the

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date of the enactment of this section.

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‘‘(b) MATTERS

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BE INCLUDED.—Each report re-

16 quired by subsection (a) shall include, with respect to the
17 applicable sport, for the calendar year covered by the re18 port—
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‘‘(1) the median compensation for amateur athletes, disaggregated by race and gender; and

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‘‘(2) the minimum and maximum compensation

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paid to amateur athletes, disaggregated by race and

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gender.’’.

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(2) CONFORMING

AMENDMENT.—The

table of

sections for chapter 2205 of title 36, United States

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Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-

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lowing:
‘‘Sec. 220530A. Reports on pay equity.’’.

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(c) RETROACTIVE EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amend-

4 ment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date
5 that is 2 years before the date of the enactment of this
6 Act.
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(d) SEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this Act, an

8 amendment made by this Act, or the application of such
9 provision or amendment to any person or circumstance is
10 held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act and
11 the amendments made by this Act, and the application of
12 the provision or amendment to any other person or cir13 cumstance, shall not be affected.