The Florida Marlins’ attempt to get tens of millions of dollars in a second state subsidy for a new baseball stadium may have to wait yet another year, with Senate Majority Leader Daniel Webster pronouncing Wednesday: “I think it’s a dead issue.”
He noted that the Marlins’ supporters latest proposal — a one-time, $100 million payment to be shared by the venues hosting the Marlins, the Orlando Magic basketball team and the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team — was taken up but then postponed in a Senate committee this week.
“I don’t expect it’ll be back up,” Webster said. He said the total dollar figure would have been a tough sell in a tight budget year.
The bill was written by Carlos Lopez-Cantera.
Revises certification of professional sports franchise facilities provisions; allows certain persons who have received funding for professional sports franchise facility to receive additional funding; increases number of current certifications to accommodate facility for Major League Baseball franchise; provides that certain franchise is deemed basis for specific prior certifications.
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