AB43,,67926792229.682 (1) Gifts and donations. The district board shall explore and consider ways to solicit and encourage gifts and donations for the development, construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of baseball park facilities and, to the extent feasible, implement means to solicit such gifts and donations.

AB43,,67946794229.682 (2) Prevailing wage. The construction of a baseball park facility that is financed in whole or in part by a district is subject to s. 66.0903.

AB43,,67966796229.682 (3) Special debt payments. The district shall pay, over a 3-year period beginning on October 1, 1996, any outstanding debt used to finance improvements to a baseball stadium that has been used as a home field by a major league professional baseball team in the district, up to a maximum amount of $1,500,000.

AB43,,67986798229.682 (4) Special ticket provisions. A major league professional baseball team that uses as its home field baseball park facilities that are constructed under this subchapter shall annually designate, for each county that is in the district’s jurisdiction, at least one of the team’s home games as a discount ticket day for that county, for which residents of that county may purchase discounted admission tickets.

AB43,,68006800229.682 (7) Youth sports organizations. A major league professional baseball team that uses as its home field baseball park facilities that are constructed under this subchapter shall make an annual contribution of at least $20,000 to youth sports organizations in this state for the purchase of equipment or the rental or maintenance of athletic facilities that are used by such organizations. The contributions that are required under this subsection may be made in cash or equipment.

AB43,,68026802229.685 (1) The district board shall maintain a special fund into which it deposits only the revenue received from the department of revenue, that is derived from the taxes imposed under subch. V of ch. 77, 2021 stats., and may use this revenue only for purposes related to baseball park facilities.

AB43,,68046804229.687 Facilities enhancement fund. The district shall establish and maintain a facilities enhancement fund. The fund shall consist of all moneys received from the department of administration under s. 16.09. The district may use moneys deposited in the fund solely for purposes related to the development, construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of baseball park facilities. Moneys deposited in the fund may not be used for the securitization or retirement of bonds. If any amount remains in the fund after the lease specified in s. 16.09 (3) (a) 1. is no longer in effect, the district board shall return the amount to the department of administration.

AB43,,68066806229.69 (4) Grant to the state land or other property, especially dedicated by the grant to use for a professional baseball park facilities or baseball park development.

AB43,,68086808229.70 (title) Minority contracting goals; disabled veteran-owned business contracting goals; lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned business contracting goals; disability-owned business contracting goals.

AB43,,68106810229.70 (1) (ae) “Disability-owned business” means a business certified by the department of administration under s. 16.289 (3).

AB43,,68126812229.70 (1) (bm) “Disabled veteran-owned Veteran-owned business” means a business certified by the department of administration under s. 16.283 (3).

AB43,,68146814229.70 (1) (aj) “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned business” means a business certified by the department of administration under s. 16.288 (3).

AB43,,68166816229.70 (2) The district shall ensure that, for construction work and professional services contracts, a person who is awarded such a contract by a district shall agree, as a condition to receiving the contract, that his or her goal shall be to ensure that at least 25 percent of the employees hired because of the contract will be minority group members, at least 1 percent of the employees hired because of the contract will be employees of a disabled veteran-owned business, at least 1 percent of the employees hired because of the contract will be employees of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned business, at least 1 percent of the employees hired because of the contract will be employees of a disability-owned business, and at least 5 percent of the employees hired because of the contract will be women if the contract is for the construction of any part of baseball park facilities.

AB43,,68186818229.70 (3) (intro.) It shall be a goal of the district to ensure that at least 25 percent of the aggregate dollar value of contracts awarded by the district in the following areas shall be awarded to minority businesses, at least 1 percent of the aggregate dollar value of contracts awarded by the district in the following areas shall be awarded to disabled veteran-owned businesses, at least 1 percent of the aggregate dollar value of contracts awarded by the district in the following areas shall be awarded to lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned businesses, at least 1 percent of the aggregate dollar value of contracts awarded by the district in the following areas shall be awarded to disability-owned businesses, and at least 5 percent of the aggregate dollar value of contracts awarded by the district in the following areas shall be awarded to women’s businesses:

AB43,,68206820229.70 (4) It shall be a goal of a district, with regard to each of the contracts described under sub. (3) (a), (b) and (c), to award at least 25 percent of the dollar value of such contracts to minority businesses, at least 1 percent of the dollar value of such contracts to disabled veteran-owned businesses, at least 1 percent of the dollar value of such contracts to lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned businesses, at least 1 percent of the dollar value of such contracts to disability-owned businesses, and at least 5 percent of the dollar value of such contracts to women’s businesses.