Bill Text: FL S1194 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public Broadcasting Program System

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-05-03 - Died in Education [S1194 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S1194-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                                    SB 1194
       
       
       
       By Senator Ring
       
       
       
       
       29-00466-13                                           20131194__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the public broadcasting program
    3         system; amending ss. 1001.25 and 1001.26, F.S.;
    4         authorizing the Department of Education to provide
    5         equipment, funds, and other support for certain
    6         television stations owned and operated by a district
    7         school board and licensed by the Federal
    8         Communications Commission; providing an effective
    9         date.
   10  
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   12  
   13         Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
   14  1001.25, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         1001.25 Educational television.—
   16         (2) POWERS OF DEPARTMENT.—
   17         (c)1. The department may provide equipment, funds, and
   18  other services to extend and update both the existing and the
   19  proposed educational television systems of tax-supported and
   20  nonprofit, corporate-owned facilities. All stations funded must
   21  be qualified by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. New
   22  stations eligible for funding shall provide a first service to
   23  an audience that is not currently receiving a broadcast signal
   24  or provide a significant new program service as defined by State
   25  Board of Education rules. Funds appropriated to the department
   26  for educational television may be used by the department for
   27  educational television only.
   28         2. The department may also provide equipment, funds, and
   29  other services to a television station that is owned and
   30  operated by a district school board and licensed as of January
   31  1, 2012, by the Federal Communications Commission as a full
   32  power educational broadcast station. Funds provided to such a
   33  television station must be used for educational television
   34  programming and services, including curriculum-based
   35  instructional programming, citizen’s participation programming,
   36  music and fine arts programs, coverage of public hearings and
   37  governmental meetings, and other public interest programming. A
   38  television station that provides programming that is
   39  specifically designed to further the principles of a particular
   40  religion may not be funded under this subparagraph.
   41         Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and paragraph
   42  (c) of subsection (2) of section 1001.26, Florida Statutes, are
   43  amended to read:
   44         1001.26 Public broadcasting program system.—
   45         (1) There is created a public broadcasting program system
   46  for the state. The department shall administer this program
   47  system pursuant to rules adopted by the State Board of
   48  Education. This program system must complement and share
   49  resources with the instructional programming service of the
   50  Department of Education and educational UHF, VHF, EBS, and FM
   51  stations in the state. The program system must include:
   52         (a) Support for existing Corporation for Public
   53  Broadcasting qualified program system educational television
   54  stations, and new stations meeting Corporation for Public
   55  Broadcasting qualifications and providing a first service to an
   56  audience that does not currently receive a broadcast signal or
   57  providing a significant new program service as defined by rule
   58  by the State Board of Education, and television stations that
   59  are owned and operated by a district school board and licensed
   60  as of January 1, 2012, by the Federal Communications Commission
   61  as a full-power educational broadcast station.
   62         (2)
   63         (c)1. The department may is authorized to provide
   64  equipment, funds, and other services to extend and update both
   65  the existing and the proposed educational television systems of
   66  tax-supported and nonprofit, corporate-owned facilities. All
   67  stations funded must be qualified by the Corporation for Public
   68  Broadcasting. New stations eligible for funding shall provide a
   69  first service to an audience that is not currently receiving a
   70  broadcast signal or provide a significant new program service as
   71  defined by State Board of Education rules. Funds appropriated to
   72  the department for educational television may be used by the
   73  department for educational television only.
   74         2. The department may also provide equipment, funds, and
   75  other services to a television station that is owned and
   76  operated by a district school board and licensed as of January
   77  1, 2012, by the Federal Communications Commission as a full
   78  power educational broadcast station. Funds provided to such a
   79  television station must be used for educational television
   80  programming and services, including curriculum-based
   81  instructional programming, citizen’s participation programming,
   82  music and fine arts programs, coverage of public hearings and
   83  governmental meetings, and other public interest programming. A
   84  television station that provides programming that is
   85  specifically designed to further the principles of a particular
   86  religion may not be funded under this subparagraph.
   87         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.