I think they've agreed that there can be collectives, and NILs from collectives are not automatically not qualified. But what will be qualified is probably what they're still negotiating. I'd guess that pure pay for play will not be allowed. But what probably will be allowed are activities that the collective sponsors where the athlete is paid for performing some services, such as signing autographs and maybe giving a speech. The harder one will be whether they can be paid to just appear. For that I'd think there may need to be some other business purpose of the event. Maybe raising money for a charitable organization. The hardest one will be if they allow appearance fees for an event that is solely to raise money for the Collective. I'd guess that IF there is legislation, a BIG IF, it might reign in collectives but I doubt it would be eliminated. The biggest roadblock to legislation might be insistence by Democrats that there be collective bargaining, whether or not the athletes are treated as employees.
