Taxes, Sales

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary text does not provide details on how much money will be allocated each year or what happens if the stadium fails to meet conditions after receiving funds.

Tennessee Stadium Tax Allocation Act

This bill creates a special allocation of state and local sales tax revenue for a specific stadium in Hamilton County if it meets certain criteria to fund capital projects and operational expenses.

What This Bill Does

• Creates a new rule allowing a specific stadium in Hamilton County to receive a portion of state and local sales taxes, excluding school allocations, if it meets certain conditions.
• Requires the entity managing the stadium to reimburse the state for reallocating tax revenue.
• Limits the use of allocated funds to capital projects at the stadium, including paying off debts, and operational expenses.
• Specifies that this special allocation will continue until either July 1, 2055, or when all debt is paid off, whichever comes first.

Who It Names or Affects

• The entity managing a specific stadium in Hamilton County
• Taxpayers who pay sales tax

Terms To Know

NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS)

A division of college football that includes schools with larger athletic programs.

Apportioned and distributed

Allocated and given out according to specific rules.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much money will be allocated each year.
• It is unclear what happens if the stadium does not meet all of the required conditions after it starts receiving funds.

Official Summary Text

Present law requires the
commissioner of revenue
to
deposit promptly to the credit of the state treasurer in state depositories all moneys received
through sales and use taxes
, and all such mone
ys
must be
be earmarked and allocated
in a certain way. Present law provides several special allocations.

This bill creates a special allocation, requiring that
a stadium

in
Hamilton County
must be apportioned and distributed
an amount
equal to
that
of
state and local sales tax revenue, excluding any portion of local sales taxes that otherwise would be allocated for school purposes,
if it meets certain parameters, including all of the following:



It is
designed to host games of an intercollegiate football team that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS)
.



It is
designed to host games of international and high school soccer teams
.



It is
designed to host local and regional events
.



T
he entity designated to govern the operations of the stadium reimburses the state for costs to reallocate apportionments of the tax revenue under this bill
.

If the above parameters are met, this bill requires such amount be apportioned and distributed to the entity. The amount is
derived from
the sale of admissions to all events occurring within the stadium and from all sales of food, drinks, merchandise, and authorized goods and products sold from a location on the premises of the stadium in conjunction with an event occurring at the stadium,
parking charges, and related services.

However, this bill requires a
mounts apportioned and distributed to the entity be for the exclusive use of the entity to fund capital projects at the stadium, including the payment of debt service for capital proj
ects, and operation expenses associated with the stadium.

The allocation provided under this
bill
must continue until the debt service is retired, or July 1, 2055, whichever is sooner.

Current Bill Text

HOUSE BILL 397
By Vital

SENATE BILL 211
By Gardenhire

SB0211
000850
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 67,
Chapter 6, relative to sales and use taxes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-6-103(d)(1)(A), is amended by
adding the following as a new subdivision:
(ix) Notwithstanding the allocations provided for in subsection (a), if a stadium,
which is designed to host games of an intercollegiate football team that competes in the
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), games of international and
high school soccer teams, and local and regional events, exists in a county having a
population of not less than three hundred sixty-six thousand two hundred (366,200) nor
more than three hundred sixty-six thousand three hundred (366,300) according to the
2020 federal census or any subsequent federal census, and only if the entity designated
to govern the operations of the stadium reimburses the state for costs to reallocate
apportionments of the tax revenue under this section, then an amount must be
apportioned and distributed to the entity equal to the amount of state and local sales tax
revenue, excluding any portion of local sales taxes that otherwise would be allocated for
school purposes, derived from the sale of admissions to all events occurring within the
stadium and from all sales of food, drinks, merchandise, and authorized goods and
products sold from a location on the premises of the stadium in conjunction with an
event occurring at the stadium, parking charges, and related services. Amounts
apportioned and distributed to the entity must be for the exclusive use of the entity to
fund capital projects at the stadium, including the payment of debt service for capital

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projects, and operation expenses associated with the stadium. The allocation provided
under this subdivision (d)(1)(A)(ix) must continue until the debt service is retired, or July
1, 2055, whichever is sooner.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.