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8. 440.99 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
440.99 (7) “Professional-sports-services contract" means an agreement under which an individual is employed, as a professional athlete or agrees to render services, as a player on a professional sports team, or with a professional sports organization, or as a professional athlete.
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9. 440.99 (8c) of the statutes is created to read:
440.99 (8c) “Recruit or solicit” means attempt to influence the choice of an athlete agent or the choice to enter into an agency contract or both by a student athlete or, if the student athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the student athlete. The term does not include giving advice with respect to the selection of a particular athlete agent or with respect to entering into an agency contract if the advice is given in a family, coaching, or social situation, unless the individual giving the advice does so because of the receipt or anticipated receipt of an economic benefit, directly or indirectly, from an athlete agent.
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10. 440.99 (9m) of the statutes is created to read:
440.99 (9m) “Sign” means any of the following, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
(a) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol.
(b) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process.
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11. 440.99 (11) of the statutes is amended to read:
440.99 (11) “Student athlete" means an individual who is eligible to attend an educational institution and engages in, is eligible to engage in, or may be eligible in the future to engage in, any interscholastic or intercollegiate sport. If an individual is permanently ineligible to participate in a particular interscholastic or intercollegiate sport, the individual is not a student athlete for purposes of that sport.
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12. 440.991 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
440.991 (2) (b) Within Not later than 7 days after an initial act that requires the individual to register as an athlete agent, such as an effort to recruit or solicit a student athlete to enter into an agency contract, the individual submits an application for registration as an athlete agent in this state.
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13. 440.9915 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
440.9915 (title) Registration as athlete agent; form; requirements; reciprocal registration.
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14. 440.9915 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
440.9915 (1) (intro.) An applicant for registration as an athlete agent shall submit an application for registration to the department in a form prescribed by the department. The application must be in the name of
applicant must be an individual, and, except as otherwise provided in sub. (2), the application must be signed
or otherwise authenticated by the applicant under penalty of perjury and state or. The application must contain at least all of the following:
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15. 440.9915 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
440.9915 (1) (a) The name, date, and place of birth of the applicant and; the address of the applicant's principal place of business; the work and mobile telephone numbers of the applicant; and means of communicating electronically with the applicant, including facsimile number, electronic mail address, and personal and business or employer Internet sites.
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16. 440.9915 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
440.9915 (1) (b) The name
A description of the applicant's each business or employer, if applicable
, of the applicant, including the name, mailing address, telephone number, organization form, and nature of the business, of the applicant's business or employer.
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17. 440.9915 (1) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:
440.9915 (1) (bm) Each social media account with which the applicant or the applicant's business or employer is affiliated.
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18. 440.9915 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
440.9915 (1) (c) Any Each business or occupation in which the applicant engaged in by the applicant for the within 5 years next preceding
before the date of submission of the application, including self-employment and employment by others, and any professional or occupational license, registration, or certification held by the applicant during that time.
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19. 440.9915 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
440.9915 (1) (e) The name, or if the student athlete is a minor, the name of the parent or guardian of the minor, sport, and last-known team for each individual for whom the applicant acted as an athlete agent during the within 5 years next preceding
before the date of submission of the application.
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20. 440.9915 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
440.9915 (1) (f) If the athlete agent's business is not a corporation, the names and addresses of the partners, members, officers, managers, associates, or profit sharers of the business and of all persons directly or indirectly holding an equity interest of 5 percent or more of the business.
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21. 440.9915 (1) (gm) of the statutes is created to read: