Bill Text: TX HB370 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility of certain events under the Events Trust Fund
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB370 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB370-Introduced.html
| By: Swanson | H.B. No. 370 | |
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| relating to eligibility of certain events under the Events Trust | ||
| Fund | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sec. 478.0051 is amended by adding subsections | ||
| (d) and (e) to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 478.0051. EVENTS ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING. (a) Only an | ||
| event listed in Section 478.0001(3) is eligible for funding under | ||
| this chapter. | ||
| (b) A listed event may receive funding through the program | ||
| only if: | ||
| (1) a site selection organization, after considering | ||
| through a highly competitive selection process one or more sites | ||
| not in this state, selects a site in this state for the event to be | ||
| held: | ||
| (A) one time; or | ||
| (B) if the event is scheduled under an event | ||
| contract or event support contract to be held each year for a period | ||
| of years, one time in each year; | ||
| (2) a site selection organization selects a site in | ||
| this state as: | ||
| (A) the sole site for the event; or | ||
| (B) the sole site for the event in a region | ||
| composed of this state and one or more adjoining states; | ||
| (3) the event is held not more than one time in | ||
| any year; | ||
| (4) the incremental increase in tax receipts | ||
| determined under Section 478.0102 is at least $1 million; and | ||
| (5) not later than the 30th day before the first | ||
| day of the event, a site selection organization submits a plan to | ||
| prevent the trafficking of persons in connection with the event to: | ||
| (A) the office of the attorney general; and | ||
| (B) the chief of the Texas Division of | ||
| Emergency Management. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), an event described by | ||
| Section 478.0001(3)(GG) may receive funding through the program if | ||
| a portion of the event is held at one or more sites located in | ||
| another state or country. | ||
| (d) An event is not eligible for funding under this chapter | ||
| if the event allows for a biological male to compete in a sport | ||
| designated by rule or procedure for female athletes. | ||
| (e) For purposes of this section: | ||
| (1) An athlete's status as a biological male is | ||
| determined by the biological sex correctly stated on: | ||
| (A) the athlete's official birth certificate; or | ||
| (B) if the athlete's official birth certificate | ||
| described by Paragraph (A) is unobtainable, another government | ||
| record that accurately states the athlete's biological sex; and | ||
| (2) a statement of an athlete's biological sex on the | ||
| athlete's official birth certificate is considered to have | ||
| correctly stated the athlete's biological sex only if the statement | ||
| was: | ||
| (A) entered at or near the time of the athlete's | ||
| birth; or | ||
| (B) modified to correct a scrivener or clerical | ||
| error in the student's biological sex. | ||
| (f) Subsection (d) does not prohibit biological males from | ||
| acting as coaches, support staff, or other necessary personnel who | ||
| are not actively competing in the sport designated by rule or | ||
| procedure for female athletes. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
