GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Florida High School Athletic Association’s Board of Directors (BOD) conducted an emergency meeting on Monday to amend and clarify language to the pending changes of Bylaw 9.9 Amateurism – NIL (Name, Image & Likeness).
 
During the meeting, the Board supported a proposed change to amend the definition of NIL collectives as it pertains to Bylaw 9.9.4.2:
 
9.9.4.2 NIL Collectives. NIL Collectives include but are not limited to, groups, organizations, or cooperative enterprises that exist to collect funds from donors, individuals, or businesses to:

1. help facilitate NIL deals for student-athletes;
2. facilitate payments to or transfers funds to student-athletes;
3. create ways for athletes to monetize from their NIL; and/or
4. otherwise promote NIL for schools or student-athletes.

NIL Collectives shall not include school sanctioned team fundraising. 

This and all other proposed Bylaw changes made by the Board will go before the State Board of Education for ratification on July 24^th to be included in the FHSAA Handbook for the 2024-25 school year.
 
The FHSAA Board of Directors will convene their first regularly scheduled meeting of the 2024-25 school year on September 22nd-23rd at the FHSAA office in Gainesville.
 

About the FHSAA
The Florida High School Athletic Association supervises and regulates interscholastic athletic programs for high school students at member public, private and charter schools. The organization also recognizes and honors academic achievement among student-athletes at nearly 850 middle, junior and senior high schools statewide. Headquartered in Gainesville, it is the official governing body for interscholastic athletics in Florida.