Georgia Code
Part 14 - Other Educational Programs
§ 20-2-317. Inappropriate Means of Encouraging and Rewarding Student Athletes; Penalty; Notice to Students

(b.1) No person shall enter into or solicit directly or through an agent a transaction with a student-athlete if such person has knowledge that the transaction would likely be cause for the student-athlete to permanently or temporarily lose athletic scholarship eligibility, the ability to participate on an intercollegiate athletic team, or the ability to participate in one or more intercollegiate sporting competitions as sanctioned by a national association for the promotion and regulation of intercollegiate athletics, by an athletic conference or other sanctioning body, or by the institution of postsecondary education itself as a reasonable self-imposed disciplinary action taken by such institution to mitigate sanctions likely to be imposed by such organizations as a result of such transaction or as a violation of such institution’s own rules.
History. Code 1981, § 20-2-317 , enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 707, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 60, § 20/HB 95; Ga. L. 2015, p. 813, § 1/HB 3.
The 2015 amendment, effective May 6, 2015, in paragraphs (a)(1), (a)(2) and (a)(3), substituted “means” for “shall mean”; added paragraph (a)(4); added subsection (b.1); and, inserted “or (b.1)” in subsection (d).
Cross references.
Uniform Athlete Agents Act, § 43-4A-1 et seq.
Athletic trainers, § 43-5-1 et seq.
Law reviews.
For note on the 2003 enactment of this Code section, see 20 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 134 (2003).
For survey article on education law for the period from June 1, 2002 through May 31, 2003, see 55 Mercer L. Rev. 237 (2003).
For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 145 (2015).

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