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The text of SPARTA includes requirements that agents make specific disclosures to student athletes and provide notice to schools.
The Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act (SPARTA), codified at 15 U.S.C. § 7802, explicitly requires athlete agents to provide a specific written disclosure document to student athletes (or their parents/guardians) when entering into an agency contract, including mandated warning language about eligibility and contract consequences. The statute’s required disclosure text itself states that within 72 hours of entering into the contract or before the next athletic event (whichever comes first), both the student athlete and the agent must notify the athletic director or other responsible official at the educational institution that an agency contract has been entered into, thereby creating a notice-to-school obligation. FTC explanatory materials and a 2026 FTC press release describe SPARTA in the same way, stating that it “requires agents to provide important information to student athletes and schools about agency contracts” and that agents “must also notify a student athlete’s school within 72 hours” after contract execution. Therefore, the statement that SPARTA requires specific disclosures to student athletes and notice to schools is accurate and supported directly by the statutory text and official FTC explanations.