Will third time be the charm for the college sports SCORE Act, with The House passing it before Fri?
64% of users predicted NO — the community got this one right. 33 predictions cast.
The U.S. House of Representatives did not vote on the Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements (SCORE) Act before the week of May 16, 2026, after Speaker Mike Johnson pulled the bill from the schedule on the evening of May 19. The cancellation — the second time in under a year that House leadership scrubbed an officially scheduled vote on the legislation — occurred because proponents could not assemble a majority.
The decisive opposition came from the Congressional Black Caucus, whose 54 voting members announced unanimous opposition to the bill, arguing the measure failed to address gerrymandering and redistricting concerns tied to the athletic conferences it would most benefit. The SCORE Act, backed by the NCAA and major college conferences, would have granted antitrust protections for governing bodies to set eligibility and transfer rules while preempting a patchwork of state NIL laws.
With the House vote shelved, attention shifted to the Senate, where Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell were in ongoing bipartisan negotiations on an alternative college sports bill, though no agreement had been reached as of May 20. The Predict Six community predicted NO at 64%, correctly anticipating the bill's failure to advance.