A 6968 — Provides for local professional sports broadcasts at no cost
Congress · introduced 2025-03-18
Requires every entity responsible for the broadcast rights of a sports team which is part of a national or international professional sports league to ensure that every publicly broadcast game played by such sports team which is played in a facility that is benefitting or has benefitted from state funds, tax subsidies, eminent domain, or another valuable benefit that was made at a cost to the state, shall be made available to view at no cost within the county such facility is situated in and its adjoining counties.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM
Sponsors
Action timeline
- · assembly — REFERRED TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION
- · assembly — REFERRED TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION
Text versions
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Inbound (2)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-18 | Clyde Vanel | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-03-18 | Jonathan Jacobson | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clyde Vanel (—, state_lower NY-33) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Jonathan Jacobson (—, state_lower NY-104) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
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- 2025-03-18 · sponsored by Clyde Vanel (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-03-18 · cosponsored by Jonathan Jacobson (cosponsor) · sponsorship