​The yearslong, multimillion-dollar effort to get Congressional action on college sports passed a historic hurdle Monday night, as the U.S. Senate voted 77-22 to pass the Protect College Sports Act, which could dramatically change the future of the industry by freezing much of the tumult of the last several years.At least, that’s the plan.The bill must still pass the House of Representatives, which is not expected to convene until after the midterm elections. Its chances remain to be determined.But what’s actually in the bill? Everything from transfer restrictions to conference expansion caps to coach-departure limitations to a supposedly harder cap on revenue sharing. There’s also a clause about the date of the football national championship game.If you haven’t been in the legislative weeds over the past few months, here’s a rundown of key provisions that would become law if the bill passes as it’s currently written.Limiting conference expansion and a Super LeagueAfter the mad rush of conference realignment that reshaped college sports geography a few years ago, this bill would amend the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to freeze some of what’s in place. Conferences that report more than $700 million in revenue (aka the Power 4: the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and SEC) would be limited to 20 members.Additionally, within the first six years of the bill’s implementation, any team in a Power 4 league wanting to move to another P4 league must first spend three years as an independent. The bill originally listed five years as an independent, but that was lowered to three this week after lobbying from some ACC schools. The cap was also raised from 19 members to 20.The six-year window added this month also happens to expire right around the time many conference TV deals expire, which is when realignment usually happens, meaning this new bill text takes out some of the realignment teeth of the original text.The Big Ten has 18 teams, the ACC has 17, and the SEC and Big 12 have 16 each. That would allow six spots to be filled in the Big Ten and SEC by schools like Notre Dame, North Carolina, Clemson, Florida, Miami (Fla.) or others — if the Big Ten and SEC even want them.There would be no timeline limit on adding independent or Group of 6 programs. The bill also prevents any outside entity from consolidating schools to create a new conference or association, aka a Super League.The return of transfer restrictionsThe PCSA would curtail the unlimited transfers currently in place. Undergraduate players would be allowed one free transfer without having to sit out a year, and graduate players would remain free to transfer without limit. This would take the rules back to the short-lived change introduced by the NCAA in 2021, before the courts opened unlimited transfers. All players would still be able to transfer in the event of a head coaching change, the discontinuation of a sport or misconduct-related circumstances.So while there would no longer be u