WASHINGTON — Congress is not expected to move this month to supersede a crush of state laws that, as soon as July 1, will challenge N.C.A.A. restrictions that have kept college athletes from making money off their fame.
The absence of an accord — or even a clear timeline for one — by the start of July would be a blow to the N.C.A.A. and its most influential and wealthy conferences, which have spent many months and millions of dollars seeking intervention from Washington. Although an agreement could still emerge this year, the prospects for a federal measure to advance ahead of the state laws have gone from a long shot to essentially nonexistent.