Registration at a glance
How to register
Arkansas does not operate a registration system for athlete agents. What its law requires instead is described below — read the statute section carefully, because "no registration" does not mean "no rules."
Contract & notification requirements
- No prescribed warning text
- No statutory cancellation right for the agency/representation contract
- Disclosure duty: the professional representative must disclose the relationship and full contract terms to a designated official of the athlete's college, 'within a time period and in a manner designated by the institution' — no fixed statutory deadline (§ 4-75-1306(b))
What the statute is silent on
Silence is not permission and not prohibition — the statute simply does not address these.
- any registration body, fee, term, or bond (no scheme exists to be silent about)
- high school athletes entirely (definition is college-only)
- criminal penalties (none in the act)
Penalties
NO CRIMINAL PENALTIES exist in the act. Civil only — § 4-75-1308 (verbatim, abridged): "An institution of higher education or a student-athlete... has a cause of action for damages against an athlete agent or third-party licensee if... adversely affected by an act or omission... in violation of this subchapter... only if, because of the act or omission, the institution of higher education or student-athlete: (A) Is suspended or disqualified from participating in an intercollegiate sport; or (B) Suffers financial damage... a prevailing plaintiff may recover punitive damages, reasonable attorney's fees and costs, and any other reasonable litigation expenses."
(Whatever underlying professional license 'as applicable' points to — e.g., unauthorized practice of law — may carry separate criminal exposure under other statutes; not verified.)
Stated as the statute states it. Read the cited section before relying on this.
Statute
Ark. Code Ann. §§ 4-75-1301 to -1308 (Arkansas Student-Athlete Publicity Rights Act; Act 810 of 2021, eff. Jan. 1, 2022; amended by Act 589 of 2023)
'Student-athlete' (§ 4-75-1302(7)) means an individual 'enrolled at an institution of higher education' or admitted/NLI-signed — HIGH SCHOOL NOT COVERED, and 'athlete agent' is never defined. BEST-EFFORT NEGATIVE: no separate UAAA chapter and no SoS registration function could be found after a genuine multi-source search, but Arkansas's official free code portal is a JS-only Lexis session that defeats automated verification — confirm by a manual Lexis Title 17 search or a direct ask to the Arkansas SoS before treating 'no registration program' as settled fact.
NIL interaction
The entire act IS the NIL act — the one-sentence licensing clause (§ 4-75-1305(a)) is the only agent regulation. § 4-75-1305(b): institutions may not prevent or penalize an athlete for obtaining professional representation. Restricted NIL categories at § 4-75-1307(b).
Sources
- Act 810 of 2021 (Arkansas Student-Athlete Publicity Rights Act) — enrolled Act PDF (April 21, 2021)
An agent, athlete agent, financial advisor, or attorney who is providing professional representation of a student-athlete shall be licensed, as applicable, in this state.
- Ark. Code Ann. § 4-75-1302 (definitions) (April 11, 2023)
Change history
- July 19, 2026 — Initial publication from primary-source research pass (statute text read directly; penalties quoted verbatim).
Spot an error? Tell us and cite the statute.
Other states
- Alabama — Revised UAAA
- California — Non-uniform state law
- Florida — Non-uniform state law
- Georgia — Original UAAA (2000)
- Kentucky — Revised UAAA
- Louisiana — Non-uniform state law
- Missouri — Original UAAA (2000)
- Mississippi — Revised UAAA
- Ohio — Non-uniform state law
- Oklahoma — Revised UAAA
- South Carolina — Non-uniform state law
- Tennessee — Revised UAAA
- Texas — Original UAAA (2000)