A new bill has been introduced in the Florida Senate to allow high school coaches to spend personal funds on their team.

“We treat them just like our kids, our sons,” said Antonio Seay.

Seay has been an assistant football coach at Miami-Northwestern Senior High School for the last four years. He worked alongside former head coach Teddy Bridgewater, who was suspended last year for impermissible benefits.

“It brought camaraderie, the brotherhood with everyone,” Seay said. “Kids came together, worked together, built a bond, and became champions at that point.”

Now there’s a bill aimed at reversing the rule that led to Bridgewater’s suspension.

Senate Bill 178 would allow high school head coaches from any sport to spend up to $15,000 in personal funds per team, per year, to pay for items like food, transportation, and recovery services in “good faith.”

This would change the current Florida High School Athletic Association bylaws that call those actions “impermissible benefits.”

“Teddy owned up to this outright, saying he provided food, Ubers, and recovery services to his players throughout the season,” said Sen. Shevrin Jones, D-Miami Gardens, as he presented the bill to the Florida Senate.

Jones sponsored the bill after there was an outpouring of support following Bridgewater’s suspension. He said he is casually calling it the Teddy Bridgewater Act.

“They are sometimes the parents for some of these young people, and sometimes these are the one individual or individuals that a lot of these student athletes trust,” Jones told CBS News Miami. “They should be able to help those student athletes with things like getting home safely after practice they should be able to help them with food if they have not eaten. Those are good faith tactics that I believe should be allowed.”

Jones said that, according to the bill, each coach must report the funds spent to the FHSAA to determine if the spending was in “good faith.”

The funds can not be used for recruiting.

“What I can’t deal with is a child walking home from school after practice at 8 p.m., and something happens to them,” Jones said.

Saey said he only has one concern.

“People taking advantage of the bill, to try to bring success with recruiting, not the good of it, to make sure that you can provide for the kids to perform on the field and in life,” Seay said.

The bill will be on the floor again on Thursday.

If passed and signed off by the governor, the legislation would take effect on July 1st.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Florida lawmakers are one step closer to renaming Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald Trump.

The Republican-led Florida House voted 81-30 in support of the name change to “President Donald J. Trump International Airport.” A similar bill moved to the Senate floor after it cleared the state’s Rules Committee.

The legislation was filed by State Rep. Meg Weinberger and would give Florida control over renaming major airports, including the name change at Palm Beach International.

Attorneys for Trump recently filed to trademark “Donald J. Trump International Airport” and “DJT,” according to new filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Usually, having a trademark allows the holder to license its use for a fee, but Trump’s trademark attorney said that isn’t what is happening.

Michael Santucci, of Fort Lauderdale-based 500Law, told USA TODAY the president is “protecting his legal rights to prevent bad actors from misusing the most infringed trademark in the world.”

“To be clear, the president and his family will not receive any royalty, licensing fee, or financial consideration whatsoever from the proposed airport renaming,” Santucci told USA TODAY. “The Trump Organization is, and always has been, willing to provide this right to his hometown county at no charge.”

Santucci told the outlet that Trump is honored by the potential airport renaming.

The name change would be subject to approval by the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as an agreement between Palm Beach County and the trademark holder authorizing the commercial use of the name.

Trump regularly travels from Washington, D.C., to spend the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago Golf Club. Trump and Air Force One land at Palm Beach International for those weekend trips.

In January, President Trump attended a ceremony at Mar-a-Lago, where the segment of Southern Boulevard between Kirk Road and South Ocean Boulevard — covering the highly visible route from Palm Beach International Airport to Mar-a-Lago, was renamed “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard.”

I love the people of Florida, I love the entire Palm Beach area. I’ve been here for a long time and I want to thank you all for being here. I’ll remember this amazing gesture for the rest of my life,” he said.

There is also a proposal before Congress to rename D.C.’s Dulles Airport “Donald J. Trump International Airport.”

In a Truth Social post this week, Trump said he did not suggest renaming New York’s Penn Station after himself, after reports that union officials and politicians suggested the change.

In December, a unanimous vote by the board formally changed the name of the Kennedy Center to The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.