A day after Ohio became the 45 th state to allow high school athletes to strike name, image and likeness deals, a Republican state lawmaker said he’s working on a bill to ban that practice.

The members of the Ohio High School Athletic Association voted to allow NIL deals Monday. The bill Rep. Adam Bird (R-New Richmond) is hoping to introduce would prohibit NIL payments to high school athletes.

"When you see the impact that NIL has had on college sports, it's not been to the benefit of of what college sports should be all about," Bird said in an interview. "And I think that that we are very much in danger of going down a similar path that is not good for high school students in Ohio by allowing this to go forward."

Bird hasn't introduced a bill yet but is talking to other lawmakers abo

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