Florida Senate Bill 836 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Commerce and Tourism
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Prohibiting a new or retained professional sport franchise that uses a facility that receives certain distributions of public funds or the franchise's league from preventing television or radio broadcasts of games in the facility due to insufficient ticket sales; providing that the sports franchise is subject to a fine by the county in which the facility is located if broadcasts of a game are prohibited; requiring that the proceeds of the fine be used to purchase tickets to games of the sports franchise at the publicly financed facility for specified individuals and their families, etc.

New or Retained Professional Sports Franchises

Sen. Michael Bennett [R]

Rep. Mike Fasano [R]

Sen. Jeremy Ring [D]

Sen. Ronda Storms [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Commerce and Tourism
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 70
2011-12-06		Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Community Affairs; Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities; Rules -SJ 70
2011-11-04		Filed

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/836
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0836/BillText/Filed/HTML