Senate File 409 - Introduced



                                     SENATE FILE       
                                     BY  COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH

                                     (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 1299)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the establishment of regional sports authority
  2    districts by convention and visitors bureaus in certain cities
  3    and making appropriations.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 2698SV 82
  6 tm/je/5

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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  15E.321  REGIONAL SPORTS
  1  2 AUTHORITY DISTRICTS == APPROPRIATION.
  1  3    1.  As used in this section, "district" means a regional
  1  4 sports authority district certified under this section.
  1  5    2.  A convention and visitors bureau may apply to the
  1  6 department for certification of a regional sports authority
  1  7 district which may include more than one city and more than
  1  8 one convention and visitors bureau within the district.  The
  1  9 department shall not certify more than ten such districts.
  1 10    3.  Each district shall actively promote youth sports, high
  1 11 school athletic activities, the special olympics, and other
  1 12 nonprofessional sporting events in the local area.
  1 13    4.  Each district shall be governed by a seven=member board
  1 14 consisting of seven members appointed by the convention and
  1 15 visitors bureau filing the application pursuant to subsection
  1 16 2.  At least three members of the board shall consist of city
  1 17 council members of any cities located in the district.  Each
  1 18 board shall be responsible for administering programs designed
  1 19 to promote the activities enumerated in subsection 3.
  1 20    5.  For each fiscal year there is appropriated from the
  1 21 general fund of the state to the department of economic
  1 22 development two million dollars to be distributed to all
  1 23 regional sports authority districts certified by the
  1 24 department as operating qualifying programs on an equal basis.
  1 25    6.  The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter
  1 26 17A necessary for administration of this section.
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill relates to the establishment of regional sports
  1 29 authority districts and makes appropriations.
  1 30    The bill allows a convention and visitors bureau to apply
  1 31 to the department of economic development for certification of
  1 32 a regional sports authority district which may include more
  1 33 than one city and more than one convention and visitors bureau
  1 34 within the district.  The bill provides that each district
  1 35 shall actively promote youth sports, high school athletic
  2  1 activities, the special olympics, and other nonprofessional
  2  2 sporting events in the local area.  The bill provides that
  2  3 each district shall be governed by a seven=member board.  Not
  2  4 more than 10 districts can be certified under the bill.
  2  5    The bill provides that each fiscal year the department of
  2  6 economic development is appropriated $2 million from the
  2  7 general fund of the state to be distributed to all regional
  2  8 sports authority districts operating qualifying programs on an
  2  9 equal basis.
  2 10 LSB 2698SV 82
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