SB70,,67516751227.13 Advisory committees and informal consultations. An agency may use informal conferences and consultations to obtain the viewpoint and advice of interested persons with respect to contemplated rule making. An agency may also appoint a committee of experts, interested persons or representatives of the public to advise it with respect to any contemplated rule making. Such a The committee shall have advisory powers only. Whenever an agency appoints a committee under this section, the agency shall submit a list of the members of the committee to the joint committee for review of administrative rules.

SB70,,67546754227.57 (11) Upon review of an agency action or decision affecting a property owner’s use of the property owner’s property, the court shall accord no deference to the agency’s interpretation of law if the agency action or decision restricts the property owner’s free use of the property owner’s property.

SB70,,67566756229.46 (1) (ae) “Disability-owned business” means a business certified by the department of administration under s. 16.289 (3).

SB70,,67586758229.46 (1) (bm) “Disabled veteran-owned Veteran-owned business” means a business certified by the department of administration under s. 16.283 (3).

SB70,,67606760229.46 (1) (aj) “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned business” means a business certified by the department of administration under s. 16.288 (3).

SB70,,67626762229.46 (2) (intro.) A person who is awarded a contract by a district shall agree, as a condition to receiving the contract, that at least 25 percent of the employees hired because of the contract will be minority group members, at least 5 percent of the employees hired because of the contract will be women, and 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, and at least 1 percent of the employees hired because of the contract will be employees of a disability-owned business, if any of the following applies:

SB70,,67646764229.46 (3) (intro.) 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 5 percent of the aggregate dollar value of contracts awarded by the district in the following areas shall be awarded to women’s businesses, and 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, and at least 1 percent of the aggregate dollar value of contracts awarded by the district in the following areas shall be awarded to a disability-owned business:

SB70,,67666766229.64 (1) The legislature determines that the provision of assistance by state agencies to a district under this subchapter, and any appropriation or grant of funds to a district under this subchapter or s. 16.09 or 20.505 (1) (bm) and the moral obligation pledge under s. 229.74 (7) serve a statewide public purpose by assisting the development, construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of a professional baseball park facilities in the state for providing recreation, by encouraging economic development and tourism, by preserving business activities within the state, by generating additional tax revenues that would not exist without the baseball park facilities, by reducing unemployment, and by bringing needed capital into the state for the benefit and welfare of people throughout the state. The legislature determines that the taxes that may be imposed by a district under subch. V of ch. 77 are special taxes that are generated apart from any direct annual tax on taxable property.

SB70,,67686768229.65 (1s) “Baseball park facilities” means property, tangible or intangible, owned in whole or in substantial part, operated or leased by a district that is principally for the support or performance of professional baseball operations including parking lots, garages, restaurants, parks, concession facilities, entertainment facilities, and transportation facilities, and other functionally related or auxiliary facilities or structures.

SB70,,67706770229.65 (1m) “Baseball park development” means property, other than baseball park facilities, tangible or intangible, operated by a professional baseball team on real estate leased or subleased from a district that is part of the operations of the professional baseball team for any legally permissible use, including retail facilities, hospitality facilities, commercial and residential facilities, health care facilities, and any other functionally related or auxiliary facilities or structures.

SB70,,67726772229.65 (6m) “Professional baseball team” means a baseball team that is a member of a league of professional baseball teams that have home stadiums approved by the league in at least 10 states and a collective average attendance for all league members of at least 10,000 persons per game over the 5 years immediately preceding the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date].

SB70,,67746774229.67 Jurisdiction. A district’s jurisdiction is any county with a population of more than 600,000 that is the site of baseball park facilities that are home to a professional baseball team and all counties that are contiguous to that county and that are not already included in a different district. Once created, a district’s jurisdiction is fixed even if the population of other counties within the district subsequently exceeds 600,000. Once a county is included in a district’s jurisdiction the county remains in the district until the district is dissolved under s. 229.71. In this section, “contiguous” includes a county that touches another county only at a corner.

SB70,,67766776229.68 Powers of a district. (intro.) A district has all of the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this subchapter, except that it may not incur any new obligations after the date on which the district may no longer collect the tax under s. 77.707 (1), 2021 stats., if such an obligation could not be paid out of the district’s revenues or assets once the tax under s. 77.707 (1), 2021 stats., is no longer collected. The district may not incur costs or any obligations for signage related to a change in naming rights for the baseball park facilities. In addition to all other powers granted by this subchapter, a district may do all of the following: