Bill Text: FL H0401 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public Broadcasting Program System

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H0401 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H0401-Introduced.html

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HB 401

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the public broadcasting program system;
3	amending s. 1001.26, F.S.; including certain television
4	stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission
5	for which support and funding may be given; providing an
6	effective date.
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8	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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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, 2011, 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, 2011, 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, 2011.

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