INDIANAPOLIS -- House Speaker Rep. Pat Bauer had harsh words Thursday for the Colts and Pacers over the teams' failure to commit to helping bail out the Capital Improvement Board.

Both rescue plans for the organization that oversees the teams' respective venues -- one from Sen. Luke Kenley and the most recent from Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard -- each call for $5 million a year contributions from both teams.

But neither team has officially committed to helping fund the effort to shore up the CIB's expected $47 million operating deficit, 6News' Norman Cox reported.

Bauer said Thursday that failing to contribute would constitute an act of poor corporate citizenship by the teams' owners.

"I know that a lot of these professional teams can hold cities and states hostage, but right now, cities and states don't have that ransom to pay," he said. "We hope they help and we're not asking much."

Bauer also said people who try to help the teams should take this as a warning that they'll get knocked down. He said the ingratitude shown Kenley after he tried to help them was "very telling."

"He worked hard to help them, and they said, 'Get away,'" he said.

Meanwhile, a key element of the bailout bill may be in trouble. House Minority Leader Brian Bosma said he doesn't like doubling the alcohol tax in Marion County, which is being counted on for about $20 million a year.

"I'm very leery of a local option alcoholic beverage tax because of the disparate position that that puts those in the alcohol industry in Marion County, since the supplies can cross county lines," he said.

The bailout bill passed the Senate on Wednesday, but it must now go through a House-Senate conference committee.