Bill Text: TX SB2000 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Major Events Reimbursement Program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2000 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2000-Introduced.html
| By: Watson | S.B. No. 2000 | |
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| relating to the Major Events Reimbursement Program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 5A(a)(4), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts | ||
| of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, | ||
| Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is 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, an FIA | ||
| Formula E automobile race, the Academy of Country Music Awards, the | ||
| National Cutting Horse Association Triple Crown, 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. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
