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By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA ©2017 The News Service of Florida. All rights reserved. Posting or forwarding this material without permission is prohibited. You can view the Terms of Use on our website. THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, March 30, 2017......... Sports franchises wouldn't be able to build or renovate stadiums on publicly owned land under a measure that won House approval Thursday. But while the House voted 82-33 to support the bill (HB 77), the Senate hasn't been in the same ballpark on the issue. "It's fine here, but the Senate … a lot of things are not moving over there, so we'll see how everything shakes out," said House bill sponsor Bryan Avila, R-Hialeah. The bill is part of an effort by House leaders to limit public assistance to private companies, reflecting a broader philosophical gulf from the Senate on business incentives, tourism marketing and government funding of professional sports facilities. A similar Senate proposal (SB 122) not been heard in committees, nor has another bill (SB 236) that would seek to repeal a 2014 law that potentially made available $13 million a year for stadium work. "A sports franchise, or a team, is a business. You will be hard-pressed to find many cases where the local government has provided publicly owned land to other businesses," Avila said Thursday on the House floor. "When we talk about economic development, and some people have mentioned this, do they provide as much economic development as let's say a UPS, a Subway, Domino's Pizza, McDonald's, some of these other businesses that are on every corner in the community? How many employees do they employ? How much economic activity do they generate? We do not give them publicly owned land." The House during the past few years has virtually ignored the 2014 stadium-funding law, despite the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity saying that applications for EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Sun Life Stadium in Miami-Dade County, Daytona International Speedway, Raymond James Stadium in Tampa and a soccer stadium in Orlando had satisfied state requirements. The state agency received just a single application, for Raymond James Stadium, for the current year. Rep. Richard Stark, D-Weston, objected to Avila's bill Thursday, saying it would prevent local governments from deciding what projects they consider right for their communities. "Taking this away from local communities is just another chipping away that we've had continually against home rule," Stark said.