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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1487
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SCHROER.
6428S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 67.641, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to charges
imposed for certain sporting events.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 67.641, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 67.641, 2
to read as follows:3
67.641. 1. (1) The general assembly may annually 1
appropriate up to three million dollars from the state 2
general revenue fund to each convention and sports complex 3
fund created pursuant to section 67.639, provided that for 4
an existing sports facility located in a first class county 5
with a charter form of government which contains part of a 6
city having a population of three hundred fifty thousand 7
inhabitants or more or any city with a population greater 8
than three hundred fifty thousand, located in more than one 9
county, such county or city has entered into a contract or 10
lease with a professional sports team affiliated with or 11
franchised by the National Football League, the National 12
Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, or the 13
American League or the National League of Major League 14
Baseball. No moneys shall be transferred pursuant to this 15
section to the benefit of a sports complex for a county in 16
any year unless each professional sports team which leases 17
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playing facilities within the county continue to lease the 18
same playing facilities which were leased on August 28, 19
1989. Each convention and sports complex fund shall be 20
administered by the county or city and used to carry out the 21
provisions of sections 67.638 to 67.645. 22
(2) Any professional sports team that leases a sports 23
facility pursuant to this section and that announces that 24
such professional sports team is relocating to another state 25
shall impose a surcharge of fifty dollars for each ticket 26
sold for a sporting event hosted by such professional sports 27
team, as well as a surcharge of five percent on every sale 28
made within the sports facility during a sporting event 29
hosted by such professional sports team. 30
2. Each city or county which has a convention and 31
sports complex fund established pursuant to the laws of this 32
state which administers a convention and sports complex 33
fund, prior to receipt of any appropriations pursuant to 34
this section shall enact or promulgate ordinances, or rules 35
and regulations which provide, pursuant to the terms and 36
provisions of section 70.859, for the purchase of goods and 37
services and for construction of capital improvements for 38
the sports complex. In no event shall more than three 39
million dollars be transferred from the state to any one 40
such convention and sports complex fund in any fiscal year 41
pursuant to this section, and in no event shall any moneys 42
be transferred from the state to any convention and sports 43
complex fund for the planning, development, construction, 44
maintenance or operation of any facility after June 30, 45
1999. Only one such transfer of state funds shall be made 46
to any convention and sports complex fund after June 30, 47
1997, provided that any convention and sports complex fund 48
which was appropriated state moneys prior to July 1, 1997, 49
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for the construction, maintenance or operation of a facility 50
shall continue to receive state moneys, subject to 51
appropriation. 52
3. This section shall not become effective unless and 53
until the applicable county or the applicable city which has 54
created a convention and sports complex fund has commenced 55
paying into the convention and sports complex fund amounts 56
at a rate sufficient for the county or city to contribute 57
the sum of three million dollars per calendar year, except 58
that this section shall become effective with respect to any 59
first class county not having a charter form of government 60
on August 28, 1989, and with respect to any charter city 61
located in a first class county not having a charter form of 62
government at the time at which such county or city has 63
commenced paying any moneys into its convention and sports 64
complex fund. The appropriations made pursuant to 65
subsection 1 of this section to any convention and sports 66
complex fund shall not exceed the amounts contributed by the 67
county or city to the fund. The county or city's 68
proportional amount specified in this section may come from 69
any source. Once the county or city has commenced paying 70
such appropriate proportional amounts into its convention 71
and sports complex fund, the county or city shall so notify 72
the state treasurer and the director of revenue and, 73
thereafter, subject to annual appropriation, transfers shall 74
commence and continue each month pursuant to this section 75
until such monthly transfers are made for forty years. 76
Moneys appropriated from general revenue shall not be 77
expended until such first class charter county or a city 78
located in such first class charter county has paid three 79
million dollars into its fund, or until such first class 80
county not having a charter form of government or until such 81
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charter city within a first class county not having a 82
charter form of government has commenced payment of moneys 83
into its fund. 84
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