Senate Bill sb1426
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Florida Senate - 2006 SB 1426
By Senator Saunders
37-1066-06 See HB 615
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to professional sports
3 franchises; amending s. 288.1162, F.S.;
4 providing additional requirements with respect
5 to certification as a facility for a new
6 professional sports franchise or a facility for
7 a retained professional sports franchise;
8 providing for repeal of the requirements by a
9 specified date; providing an effective date.
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11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13 Section 1. Subsection (7) of section 288.1162, Florida
14 Statutes, is amended to read:
15 288.1162 Professional sports franchises; spring
16 training franchises; duties.--
17 (7)(a) The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic
18 Development shall notify the Department of Revenue of any
19 facility certified as a facility for a new professional sports
20 franchise or a facility for a retained professional sports
21 franchise or as a facility for a retained spring training
22 franchise. The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic
23 Development shall certify no more than eight facilities as
24 facilities for a new professional sports franchise or as
25 facilities for a retained professional sports franchise and
26 shall certify at least five as facilities for retained spring
27 training franchises, including in such total any facilities
28 certified by the Department of Commerce before July 1, 1996.
29 The office may make no more than one certification for any
30 facility. The office may not certify funding for less than the
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Florida Senate - 2006 SB 1426
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1 requested amount to any applicant certified as a facility for
2 a retained spring training franchise.
3 (b) The eighth certification of an applicant under
4 this section as a facility for a new professional sports
5 franchise or a facility for a retained professional sports
6 franchise shall be for a franchise that is a member of the
7 National Basketball Association, has been located within the
8 state since 1987, and has not been previously certified. This
9 paragraph is repealed July 1, 2010.
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.
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