• $2.8 billion in backpay for former student-athletes
• 22% of annual athletic revenue sharing for current and prospective student-athletes
• NCAA will increase the 22% revenue cap annually b 4%. The revenue cap is recaluclated ever three years

• The Score Act will not preempt or change the force and effect of Title IX or other federal laws.
• Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination based on sex of recipients for federal financial assistance.

• Requires all scholls with annual athletic revenue of over $20 million to maintain a minimum of 16 varsit sports AND
• Broad opportunities for non-revenue and Olympic sports

• Schools with annual athletic revenue exceeding $20 million to provide benefits to student-athletes, including mental health programs, access to legal and tax services and representation, career readiness counseling, degree completion assistance, and medical benefits
• Post-eligibility health benefits for injuries sustained during enrollment while playing a varsit sport.
• Prohibition of scholarship recision based on athletic performance, illness, injury or mental condition

• Limited antitrust exemption for the NCAA, its member conferences, and the newly formed College Sports Comission, protecting them from continued, antitrust related litigation by specifically deeming compliance with the SCORE Act
• Student-athletes may still seek recourse against a university for common law claims

• Preemption of over 30 differing state laws with one law at the national level

• Student-Athletes are not employees
• The SCORE Act states, "no individual may be considered an employee of an institution, a conference, or an interstate intercollegiate althletic association based onthe participation of such individual on a varsit sports team or in an intercollegiate athletic competition as a student athlete."

• Cap on agent fees at 5%
• Permit the termination of agent-athlete contracts six months post student-enrollment.

McGuire Woods. "The Goals of the Score Act: What Law Makers Aim to Achieve." mcguirewoods.com, 11 Sept. 2025, http://www.mcguirewoods.com/client-resources/alerts/2025/9/the-goals of the score-act-what-lawmakers-aim-to-achieve/.