Bill Text: CA AB875 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Local government: professional sports franchises.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - Died at Desk. [AB875 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB875-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 875	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act relating to local government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 875, as introduced, Davis. Local government: professional
sports franchises.
   Existing law authorizes any agency, commission, or board provided
for by a joint powers agreement to issue revenue bonds to pay the
cost and expenses of acquiring or constructing a project or
conducting a program for the purposes of a coliseum, a stadium, a
sports arena or sports pavilion or other building for holding sports
events, athletic contests, contests of skill, exhibitions,
spectacles, and other public meetings, among others.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that will require a study of the impact of local
government incentives to recruit, retain, and maintain professional
sports franchises in California cities and counties and the impact of
losing professional sports franchises upon localities which have
incurred debt to recruit, retain, and maintain those professional
sports franchises.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that will require a study of the impact of local
government incentives to recruit, retain, and maintain professional
sports franchises in California cities and counties and the impact of
losing professional sports franchises upon localities which have
incurred debt to recruit, retain, and maintain those professional
sports franchises.