House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Protecting Student Athletes’ Economic Freedom Act of 2025
Official title: To prohibit a student athlete from being considered an employee of an institution, a conference, or an association based on participation in certain intercollegiate athletics.
Sponsor: Rep. Lisa McClain R-MIWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 7, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 7, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2688.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McCLAIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 62, April 7, 2025, Page H1461):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2688, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2688
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
9 cosponsors — 9 Republicans
0 of 9 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Rick Allen (R-GA), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Mark Harris (R-NC), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Robert Onder (R-MO), Burgess Owens (R-UT), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Tim Walberg (R-MI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lisa McClain.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.