SB 200 Louisiana Senate · 2025 Regular Session

COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides for restrictions to international intercollegiate athlete's compensation, rights, and athletic scholarships. (8/1/25)

SB 200 proposes to implement new restrictions concerning international intercollegiate athletes attending colleges and universities. The bill specifically targets their compensation, outlining new limits or rules on how they can be paid. Additionally, it addresses their broader rights and the athletic scholarships they are awarded, directly affecting international student-athletes competing at these institutions.

Issues: ✗ Immigration

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Apr 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Apr 4, 2025 Last action May 7, 2025

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What changed between versions

SB200 Original → SB200 Engrossed · 3 edits · May 5, 2025

MINOR

The bill was amended to clarify that the 25% cap on athletic scholarships for foreign citizens applies to each individual roster within an athletic program, rather than the entire athletic program as a whole. This change ensures the restriction is applied more granularly to specific teams or groups of athletes. Additionally, formatting inconsistencies in the header and digest sections were corrected to align with standard legislative document styles.

Scope change

The scope of the scholarship restriction was narrowed from applying to the entire athletic program to applying specifically to each roster within an athletic program.

FISCAL

Changed the scholarship limit calculation from 'available athletic scholarships' for the whole program to 'available athletic scholarships' per roster within an athletic program.

REQUIREMENT

Updated the text to specify that the institution shall not award more than twenty-five percent of available aid 'for each roster within an athletic program' instead of just 'for each athletic program'.

TECHNICAL

Corrected header and digest formatting, including page numbering and the title of the bill version (Original vs. Engrossed).

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Committee

Apr 30, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported with amendments.

upper

Apr 14, 2025

Committee

Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors