Bill Text: MI HB6049 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriations; other; appropriation of public funds to a professional sports team; prohibit if home sporting event is blacked out in the previous fiscal year. Amends 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1101 - 18.1594) by adding sec. 399.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-21 - Printed Bill Filed 04/21/2010 [HB6049 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB6049-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 6049

 

April 20, 2010, Introduced by Rep. Sheltrown and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

     A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled

 

"The management and budget act,"

 

(MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594) by adding section 399.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 399. (1) An appropriation shall not be made in a fiscal

 

year to a professional sports team or franchise whose home stadium

 

is located in this state if, during the preceding fiscal year, the

 

televised broadcast of a sporting event played by the team or

 

franchise at the home stadium was blacked out.

 

     (2) This section does not apply if 1 or more of the following

 

circumstances exist:

 

     (a) The money was appropriated in a bill enacted into law

 

before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this

 

section.

 

     (b) The money is from a tax imposed to support a sports team

 

or franchise or a sports stadium or other structure and the tax was

 

imposed before the effective date of the amendatory act that added

 

this section.

 

     (c) The application of this section would breach a contract

 

entered into before the effective date of the amendatory act that

 

added this section.