Bill Text: TX SB1270 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain events to receive funding through the Major Events Reimbursement Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-13 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1270 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1270-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain events to receive funding through the Major Events Reimbursement Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-13 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1270 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1270-Engrossed.html
By: Watson | S.B. No. 1270 |
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relating to the eligibility of certain exhibitions and festivals to | ||
receive funding through the Major Events Reimbursement Program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 5A(a)(4) and (5), 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 X Games, the National | ||
Hockey League All-Star Game, the Major League Baseball All-Star | ||
Game, a game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Bowl | ||
Championship Series or its successor or a National Collegiate | ||
Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision | ||
postseason playoff or championship game, the National Collegiate | ||
Athletic Association men's or women's lacrosse championships, a | ||
World Cup Soccer game, the World Cup soccer tournament, the Major | ||
League Soccer All-Star Game, the Major League Soccer Cup, the | ||
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association National Finals Rodeo, an | ||
Elite Rodeo Association World Championship, the United States Open | ||
Championship, 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 Amateur | ||
Athletic Union Junior Olympic Games, a mixed martial arts | ||
championship, the Breeders' Cup World Championships, a Formula One | ||
automobile race, the Moto Grand Prix of the United States, the | ||
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) All-Star | ||
Race, the season-ending Championship Race for the National | ||
Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), the Academy of | ||
Country Music Awards, the National Cutting Horse Association Triple | ||
Crown, a world-renowned exhibition or festival that is recognized | ||
by the International World Exhibition & Festival Organization, a | ||
national political convention of the Republican National Committee | ||
or the Democratic National Committee, a presidential general | ||
election debate, or the largest event held each year at a sports | ||
entertainment venue in this state with a permanent seating | ||
capacity, including grandstand and premium seating, of not less | ||
than 125,000. 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, ESPN or an affiliate, the National Hockey League, | ||
Major League Baseball, the Federation Internationale de Football | ||
Association (FIFA), the International World Games Association, the | ||
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), Dorna | ||
Sports, the Amateur Athletic Union, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys | ||
Association, the Elite Rodeo Association, Major League Soccer, the | ||
United States Golf Association, or the United States Olympic | ||
Committee; | ||
(B) 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; | ||
(D) the National Cutting Horse Association; | ||
(E) the International World Exhibition & | ||
Festival Organization; | ||
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the Democratic National Committee; | ||
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Debates. | ||
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, 2019. |