Name, Image, and Likeness for International Collegiate Athletes Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7982.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FLOOD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 64, April 15, 2024, Page H2397):
  Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: The amendment of the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide F visas and employment authorization for international student athletes who enter into endorsement contracts for the commercial use of their names, images, and likenesses.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 15, 2024 ↗

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  334 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7982, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7982

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 23, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7ff29465444c71cdfb4406e59ec74b06b54ffc24e5492712525a9d83df2df65f

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 23, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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