In 1997, the NCAA and several major academic institutions urged the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) to consider drafting a model law that would provide a uniform system for regulating athlete agents. NCCUSL is a national organization that drafts uniform and model state laws and comprises more than 300 lawyers, judges, state legislators and law professors appointed by their respective states. After agreeing to tackle this important project, NCCUSL convened an 11-person drafting committee that conducted drafting sessions over a three-year period. All interested parties were welcome to attend and included representatives from the NCAA, staff from the professional league players associations, athlete agents and other interested parties. In the fall of 2000, NCCUSL completed its work on the Uniform Athlete Agents Act (UAAA).
As of July 11, 2007, the UAAA had been passed in 36 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S Virgin Islands:
Two states had active UAAA legislation in their legislative chambers:
Five states had existing, non-UAAA laws designed to regulate athlete agents:
Ten states and one territory had no existing law regulating athlete agents:
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