Bill Text: TX SB1270 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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-Comm_Sub.html
86R31103 BEE-D | ||
By: Watson | S.B. No. 1270 | |
(Collier) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1270: No. |
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relating to the eligibility of certain events 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 chronicling the life | ||
of Nelson Mandela 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. Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the | ||
76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's | ||
Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subsection (a-1) and | ||
adding Subsection (a-5) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) An event not listed in Subsection (a)(4) of this | ||
section is ineligible for funding under this section. A listed | ||
event may receive funding through the Major Events Reimbursement | ||
Program under this section only if: | ||
(1) a site selection organization selects a site | ||
located in this state for the event to be held one time or, for an | ||
event scheduled to be held each year for a period of years under an | ||
event contract, or an event support contract, one time each year for | ||
the period of years, after considering, through a highly | ||
competitive selection process, one or more sites that are not | ||
located in this state; | ||
(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 amount of the incremental increase in tax | ||
receipts determined by the department under Subsection (b) of this | ||
section equals or exceeds $1 million, provided that for an event | ||
scheduled to be held each year for a period of years under an event | ||
contract or event support contract, the incremental increase in tax | ||
receipts shall be calculated as if the event did not occur in the | ||
prior year; and | ||
(5) not later than the 30th day before the first day of | ||
the event, a site selection organization or the organization | ||
hosting the event submits a plan to prevent the trafficking of | ||
persons in connection with the event to the office of the attorney | ||
general, the human trafficking prevention task force established | ||
under Section 402.035, Government Code, and the chief of the Texas | ||
Division of Emergency Management. | ||
(a-5) If the department determines an event is ineligible to | ||
receive funding through the Major Events Reimbursement Program due | ||
solely to a failure to timely submit a plan as required by | ||
Subsection (a-1)(5) of this section, the event may receive funding | ||
through the program if: | ||
(1) the plan required by that subdivision is submitted | ||
to the required entities not later than seven days before the event | ||
begins and is implemented during the event; and | ||
(2) all other requirements for funding under this | ||
section, including those imposed by Subsections (d-1) and (w) of | ||
this section, are satisfied not later than the 60th day after the | ||
last day of the fiscal year in which the event occurs, provided | ||
submission of the plan required by Subsection (a-1)(5) of this | ||
section was not previously required under this section for that | ||
event. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 5A(a-1), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts | ||
of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, | ||
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by this Act, and Section | ||
5A(a-5), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil | ||
Statutes), as added by this Act, apply to an event that occurs | ||
before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. 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. |