The year-long delay in giving college athletes control over their own marketing, put into a separate bill as an amendment at the last minute, might be reversed thanks to another amendment slipped into yet another bill.
Sen. Travis Hutson, R-St. Augustine, who defended the delay Thursday as “an abundance of caution” to make sure student athletes don’t lose their NCAA eligibility, filed the new amendment Friday morning following an uproar from athletes, coaches and even fellow Republicans.
The amendment would override the one passed Thursday and return the effective date when college athletes could control their names, images and likenesses from July 1, 2022, back to July 1 of this year.