Becky Jacobs and Olivia Herken:
The legislation would also outline rules around student-athlete NIL agreements and make details — such as the terms of the deal and revenue it generates — exempt from the state’s open records laws. Advocates for government transparency said the exemption could create a “subjective and potentially expansive loophole.”
“There’s been some controversy around that (exemption) language, but the goal has been to codify what we are already doing. We already do not share NIL details … both for privacy reasons and competitive reasons,” Mnookin said.
Asked about the proposed exemption, Hesselbein said they were looking ahead to next year, when Democrats hope to gain a majority in the Senate following this fall’s elections.
“We’ve talked about that as a caucus, and we think that there can be things moving forward that we might want to make amendments in January of the next calendar year,” she said.