Bill Text: TX SB309 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to events to receive funding through a major events trust fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-04-29 - Effective immediately [SB309 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB309-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Harris S.B. No. 309
(In the Senate - Filed January 3, 2011; February 2, 2011,
read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
March 14, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; March 14, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the events eligible to receive funding through a major
events trust fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subdivisions (4) and (5), Subsection (a),
Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature,
Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
(4) "Event" means a Super Bowl, a National Collegiate
Athletic Association Final Four tournament game, the National
Basketball Association All-Star Game, the National Hockey League
All-Star Game, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, a National
Collegiate Athletic Association Bowl Championship Series game, a
World Cup Soccer game, the World Games, a national collegiate
championship of an amateur sport sanctioned by the national
governing body of the sport that is recognized by the United States
Olympic Committee, an Olympic activity, including a Junior or
Senior activity, training program, or feeder program sanctioned by
the United States Olympic Committee's Community Olympic
Development Program, the Breeders' Cup World Championships, [or] a
Formula One automobile race, the Academy of Country Music Awards,
or a national political convention of the Republican National
Committee or the Democratic National Committee. The term includes
any activities related to or associated with an event.
(5) "Site selection organization" means:
(A) the National Football League, the National
Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Basketball
Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, the
Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the
International World Games Association, or the United States Olympic
Committee;
(B) [or] the national governing body of a sport
that is recognized by the United States Olympic Committee, the
National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Formula One Management
Limited, or the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile;
(C) the Academy of Country Music; or
(D) the Republican National Committee or the
Democratic National Committee.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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