Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 816
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  01/23/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Bennett) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 79 and 80
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Broadcast blackouts prohibited at publicly
    6  financed facilities.—
    7         (1) A new or retained professional sports franchise using a
    8  facility that receives public funding under s. 212.20(6)(d)6.,
    9  Florida Statutes, or the franchise’s league may not prohibit
   10  television or radio broadcasts of a game played in the facility
   11  in areas near the facility due to insufficient ticket sales.
   12         (2) If the professional sports franchise or its league
   13  violates this section, the professional sports franchise is
   14  subject to a fine by the county in which the facility is located
   15  in the amount of $125,000 per violation. A fine assessed under
   16  this section must be paid by the franchise before it plays the
   17  first regular season game of the next season in the publicly
   18  financed facility.
   19         (3) The proceeds of the fine shall be used by the county or
   20  the public sports authority for the county exclusively to
   21  purchase tickets to games of the professional sports franchise
   22  at the facility for foster children and their foster families,
   23  nonprofit youth organizations, and the United Service
   24  Organization, Inc., which organization will provide the tickets
   25  to servicemembers on leave from active duty in a combat zone and
   26  their families.
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   28  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   29         And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete line 25
   31  and insert:
   32         and county are operating a homeless shelter; prohibiting a
   33  new or retained professional sport franchise that uses a
   34  facility that receives certain distributions of public funds or
   35  the franchise’s league from preventing television or radio
   36  broadcasts of games in the facility due to insufficient ticket
   37  sales; providing that the sports franchise is subject to a fine
   38  by the county in which the facility is located if broadcasts of
   39  a game are prohibited; requiring that the proceeds of the fine
   40  be used to purchase tickets to games of the sports franchise at
   41  the publicly financed facility for specified individuals and
   42  their families; providing