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HB 7-B — Intercollegiate Athlete Compensation and Rights
by Rep. LaMarca
This summary is provided for information only and does not represent the opinion of any Senator, Senate Officer, or Senate Office.
Prepared by: Rules Committee (RC)
The bill modifies provisions relating to intercollegiate athlete compensation and rights in Florida. The bill removes:
- Requirements regarding compensation that intercollegiate athletes may earn from the use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) and restrictions on institutional involvement in NIL activities.
- Requirements and prohibitions for postsecondary educational institutions whose intercollegiate athletes seek to earn compensation or to have professional representation.
- Restrictions relating to contracts for the use of an intercollegiate athlete’s NIL.
The bill retains the requirement that institutions offer a financial literacy and life skills workshop for intercollegiate athletes, but requires each workshop to include entrepreneurship, modifies the timing of the training, and requires the second workshop to be more rigorous than the first.
The bill protects postsecondary institutions and their staff from liability related to loss of an athlete’s ability to NIL compensation due to routine decisions taken in the course of intercollegiate athletics.
Additionally, the bill removes an unnecessary provision relating to an athlete agent representing an intercollegiate athlete for NIL purposes. However, the bill maintains in statute the requirement an athlete agent must be licensed for the purposes of contracts that allow an intercollegiate athlete to profit from the commercial use of her or his NIL, and be protected from unauthorized appropriation and commercial exploitation of her or his right to publicity.
If approved by the Governor, or allowed to become law without the Governor’s signature, these provisions take effect upon becoming law.
Vote: Senate 34-0; House 113-0