NFL, NFLPA to sit with NCCA and state officials to review agents' laws – NFL News
The United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCCA), the premier American football league, National Football League (NFL) and various state officials are getting together on Thursday to review the regulations governing
the athlete agents.
The initiative is taken by the NCCA with an aim to rein in the increasing role of the unscrupulous agents.
NCCA administrators are expected to sit down with the NFL, NFL Players Association (NFLPA), and state officials to review the legislation currently being implemented at the state level. They will also assess the situation with
regard to effectiveness and level of its effectiveness with regard to control of agents activities.
The single unified Athlete Agents Act 2000 is being enforced in the forty states of the country in addition to the US Virginia Islands and District of Columbia, while three states their own laws.
However, these laws have been brought into several questions recently and effectiveness of their implementation is being challenged by a several quarters.
"Outside third parties don't necessarily trigger any form of definition of an agent, whether that's within NCAA rules or in some cases the way the law is written within a state. So let's have a conversation," MD NCCA’s Enforcement
Department Rachel Newman Baker said. "Figure out where we are with that in the ways laws are written. Here's what's happening now, here's how agents are recruiting, here's what they're doing, here are the other types of people they're reaching out to help
them recruit. Do we need to change the law to address that?”
A year ago a report published by the American news agency Association Press (AP) had highlighted the problem, noting that more than half of states, under this law, had not suspended or revoked license of any agent or imposed any
penalty.
The Athletic Association is said to have now drawn a list of measures to be discussed at the Thursday's meeting. A major issue that is likely to come up is the exertion of a third party, especially the family members, influence
in the agents activities.
In some cases, the third parties including the agents’ family members are found engaged in agent-like activities.
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