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Senate Considers High School Sports Recruiting Bill
March 8, 2012
A measure that would limit the power of the Florida High School Athletics Association in some transfer cases is set to pass the Senate after begin subbed in for a more sweeping measure in the upper chamber.
Sen. Steve Wise, R-Jacksonville, had sponsored a measure that would allow private schools to form a separate athletics association if they wanted to, but instead opted Wednesday for a House version aimed at focusing punishments for high-school “recruiting” on coaches and schools instead of students.
While the House version is far milder than the bill Wise swapped out, it has still had an up-and-down path in the Legislature; it was part of a exchange in the House Education Committee over procedure earlier in the year. A final Senate vote could come as soon as Thursday.
By The News Service of Florida
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