Bill Text: FL S0472 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Nondenominational Television Stations/PBPS [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 [S0472 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0472-Introduced.html
 
Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 472 
 
By Senator Sobel 
31-00458-10                                            2010472__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to the public broadcasting program 
3         system; amending s. 1001.26, F.S.; including certain 
4         television stations licensed by the Federal 
5         Communications Commission for which support and 
6         funding may be given; providing an effective date. 
7 
8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
9 
10         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and paragraph 
11  (c) of subsection (2) of section 1001.26, Florida Statutes, are 
12  amended to read: 
13         1001.26 Public broadcasting program system.— 
14         (1) There is created a public broadcasting program system 
15  for the state. The department shall administer this program 
16  system pursuant to rules adopted by the State Board of 
17  Education. This program system must complement and share 
18  resources with the instructional programming service of the 
19  Department of Education and educational UHF, VHF, ITFS, and FM 
20  stations in the state. The program system must include: 
21         (a) Support for existing Corporation for Public 
22  Broadcasting qualified program system educational radio and 
23  television stations, and new stations meeting Corporation for 
24  Public Broadcasting qualifications and providing a first service 
25  to an audience that does not currently receive a broadcast 
26  signal or providing a significant new program service as defined 
27  by rule by the State Board of Education, and nondenominational 
28  television stations licensed as of July 1, 2010, by the Federal 
29  Communications Commission as full-power educational broadcast 
30  stations. 
31         (2) 
32         (c) The department is authorized to provide equipment, 
33  funds, and other services to extend and update both the existing 
34  and the proposed educational television and radio systems of 
35  tax-supported and nonprofit, corporate-owned facilities. All 
36  stations funded must be qualified by the Corporation for Public 
37  Broadcasting or be nondenominational television stations 
38  licensed as of July 1, 2010, by the Federal Communications 
39  Commission as full-power educational broadcast stations. New 
40  stations eligible for funding shall provide a first service to 
41  an audience that is not currently receiving a broadcast signal 
42  or provide a significant new program service as defined by State 
43  Board of Education rules. Funds appropriated to the department 
44  for educational television and funds appropriated to the 
45  department for educational radio may be used by the department 
46  for either educational television or educational radio, or for 
47  both. 
48         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010. 
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