Bill Text: PA HR76 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging mass transit agencies throughout this Commonwealth to consider the possibilities of leasing the naming rights of transit stations and other transit-owned property to private corporations and organizations in order to help defray the costs of the financial challenges that mass transit agencies face.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-11)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-11 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [HR76 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR76-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 400
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 76 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY YOUNGBLOOD, CRUZ, BOYD, CALTAGIRONE, DONATUCCI, FLECK, GRUCELA, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, W. KELLER, KORTZ, MILLARD, MOUL, MURT, M. O'BRIEN, PALLONE, PARKER, PYLE, RAPP, READSHAW, ROEBUCK, SABATINA, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, VULAKOVICH, WALKO AND WATSON, FEBRUARY 11, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 11, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Urging mass transit agencies throughout this Commonwealth to
consider the possibilities of leasing the naming rights of
transit stations and other transit-owned property to private
corporations and organizations in order to help defray the
costs of the financial challenges that mass transit agencies
face.
WHEREAS, By selling naming rights to its stations, mass
transit agencies within this Commonwealth could generate money
to enhance and encourage ridership, defray budget costs and
preserve some of its most historic stations; and
WHEREAS, Naming rights could be sold to corporations and
other organizations wishing to increase the public's awareness
of them; and
WHEREAS, In 2003, the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, sold the
name of the Las Vegas Convention Center Station and one of nine
trains in its light-rail system to Nextel Communications, Inc.,
for $50 million to be paid over 12 years; and
WHEREAS, The City of San Diego, California, sold the naming
rights of four firefighting helicopters to four different
corporations for $800,000; and
WHEREAS, Naming rights are sold not just to the highest, but
to the most appropriate bidder; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives urge mass transit
agencies throughout this Commonwealth to consider the
possibilities of leasing the naming rights of transit stations
and other transit-owned property to private corporations and
organizations in order to help defray the costs of the financial
challenges that mass transit agencies face.
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