High school athletics in Florida may get an overhaul if a new bill passes into law.

The bill would allow private and charter schools to create a new high school athletic association with a new set of rules, which could allow them to recruit players.

Most public and private schools in the Sunshine State are part of the Florida High School Athletic Association. The association follows a set of rules that include no recruiting.

But 11 schools in the state, including Arlington Country Day School in Jacksonville, have formed their own conference -- the Sunshine Independent Athletic Association.

The schools in this small conference are only allowed to play each other. But that could soon change if the new bill is approved by the Legislature, creating and allowing the SIAA to expand and forcing both athletic conferences to play each other.

Terry Fields, whose son played basketball at Arlington Country Day, supports the bill.

"I think there needs to be more variety," Fields said. "It's time. I think you need to have variety because the Florida association just had too much power at this point."

But the president of The Bolles School, John Trainer, doesn't like the idea. He testified against the bill to a Senate subcommittee.

"There are hundreds and hundreds of schools, public and private, opposed to this bill for every one that's in favor of it because if it passes, it is going to hurt every student athlete in Florida," Trainer said.

Trainer said the purpose of the bill is to create a second association with its own rules and force schools following a different set of rules to play them.

"What this does is create another set of schools that would compete, that want to compete athletically who follow a different set of rules, and it's not a level playing field," Trainer said.