Contracts

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about the effective date or the exact scope beyond the criteria mentioned in the bill text.

Contracts for Personal Seat Licenses

This bill requires professional sports teams to offer long-term seat license holders the same price for an upgraded seat as their current one in certain large stadiums.

What This Bill Does

• Requires contracts between a personal seat license (PSL) holder who has had their PSL for at least ten years and a professional sports team to include a clause that allows the holder to buy an improved or better seat at the same price they paid before.
• Applies this rule to stadiums with more than 65,000 seats in counties with a metropolitan form of government and a population over 500,000 based on recent census data.
• Makes sure all new contracts for upgraded PSLs after the law is passed follow these rules.

Who It Names or Affects

• Professional sports teams that have stadiums with more than 65,000 seats in large cities or counties with a metropolitan form of government and a population over 500,000.
• People who have had a personal seat license (PSL) for at least ten years and want to upgrade their seating.

Terms To Know

Personal Seat License (PSL)

A special ticket that allows someone to buy the same seat every year at a sports stadium.

Professional Sports Franchise

The business that owns and runs a professional sports team, like an NFL or NBA team.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not apply to stadiums with fewer than 65,000 seats or counties without a metropolitan form of government.
• The exact date when the law will start is not known yet.

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

HOUSE BILL 1151
By Miller

SENATE BILL 1120
By Lamar

SB1120
003222
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7;
Title 9; Title 16; Title 47 and Title 67, relative to
personal seat licenses.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47, Chapter 50, Part 1, is amended by
adding the following as a new section:
(a) All contracts entered into between an existing personal seat license (PSL)
holder of ten (10) or more years and a professional sports franchise for the purchase of
a subsequent PSL with an upgraded or improved seating classification must include a
provision that enables the PSL holder to purchase the subsequent PSL for the same
price as the previous PSL.
(b) Subsection (a) applies to:
(1) Contracts for PSL's in stadiums with a seating capacity of at least
sixty-five thousand (65,000) located in any county having a metropolitan form of
government with a population of more than five hundred thousand (500,000),
according to the 2020 federal census or any subsequent federal census; and
(2) All contracts for subsequent PSL purchases entered into on or after
the effective date of this act.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.