Require owners of professional sports teams to give local communities the chance to buy teams before relocating them.

Greg Casar · Texas · Democratic

policy impact 5.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 100%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Evidence

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Casar and Sanders introduced the Home Team Act, saying teams seeking to move would have to give their home city one year to purchase the franchise at a fair price before relocating.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): This is a concrete legislative step matching the promise, but it is only a bill introduction. I found no evidence in the lookback window that the proposal became law or was otherwise implemented.

partial same_term A for effort

Sports teams sometimes threaten relocation for new stadiums. Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar want to stop that.
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 95%

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As a federal representative, Casar could materially advance this promise through legislation, and he did take a serious step by introducing the Home Team Act with Bernie Sanders. The bill appears to match the promise closely by requiring teams seeking relocation to give their home community a one-year opportunity to buy the franchise at a fair price. But the available evidence shows only bill introduction, with no indication that the proposal became law or was otherwise implemented. Because there was a serious legislative attempt but no delivered policy outcome, this is best scored as never, with effort credit.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 94%