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Professional sports teams in Florida are required to use their stadiums as homeless shelters during the off-season, but they don’t.

Legislation to allow the state to take back some of the 300 million dollars in taxpayer money Florida’s pro sports teams receive passed a senate committee today. Mike Bennett is the bill’s sponsor. He says the teams need to follow the law or stop taking tax dollars.

“The professional sports franchises keep going back to the taxpayers, the people of the State of Florida, and asking them for money, but they give nothing back and it just kind of irritated me,” said Bennett.

The bill was also amended to include penalties for pro teams that have games blacked out due to low attendance. If the bill passes, teams would be charged 125-thousand dollars for every game taken off the airwaves.