SC Senate votes to keep college NIL payments a secret

By: Jessica Holdman

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: February 18, 2026

Words: 686

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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COLUMBIA — South Carolina legislators will allow public colleges to continue concealing what they pay college athletes featured in university sports advertisements and promotions.

The Senate voted 30-13 after about 90 minutes of debate Tuesday to approve a bill exempting from public records law details of so-called Name, Image and Likeness payments made to individual players or sports teams. All 13 “no” votes came from Republicans.

Another vote would send the legislation, which …

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