Name Image Likeness (NIL) Information
Effective July 1, 2021, NCAA rules and Texas state law permit student-athletes the opportunity to benefit from their name, image and likeness (NIL). Student-athletes may engage in all of the following NIL activities:
• Receive compensation from a business to use the student-athletes NIL to promote their product or service;
• Use their own NIL to promote their own business or to promote a business that employs the student-athlete;
• Receive compensation to sign autographs or appear at a business or private event; and/or
• Utilize an agent to assist with any NIL activities, provided the student-athlete has a written agreement with the agent that is specific to NIL activities.

Before a student-athlete may engage in NIL activities, he/she must attend a financial literacy and life skills workshop at the beginning of their first and third academic years at Howard Payne. The workshop must be five hours in duration and include information on financial aid, debt management, time management, budgeting and academic resources available to the student-athletes. Howard Payne will not provide information on which financial literacy workshop to attend.

Howard Payne NIL Guidelines
 The student-athlete must disclose NIL activities to the Howard Payne Compliance Office prior to signing a contract.
 The student-athlete should complete the “Howard Payne Student-Athlete NIL Disclosure Form,” before entering into an agreement for NIL activities.
 Student-athletes and prospective student-athletes may not use Howard Payne logos, trademarks or apparel as part of any NIL agreements.
 Howard Payne and its staff will not be involved in arranging NIL transactions for student-athletes.
 Howard Payne will not provide contact information for student-athletes to various entities regarding NIL.
 Student-athletes and prospective student-athletes may enter into contracts with boosters in accordance with NCAA rules.
 The NIL contract/agreement may not be an impermissible recruiting inducement and cannot constitute pay-for-play.
 Howard Payne athletes and prospective-student-athletes may not receive compensation that is over and above typical compensation for a similar activity.

NCAA rules and Texas state law have several parameters governing these new NIL opportunities. The following resources provide valuable information to help our student-athletes understand these parameters:

• NCAA site: https://www.ncaa.org/about/taking-action
• Howard Payne Student-Athlete Q and A
• Howard Payne NIL Activity Reporting Form