Bill Text: TX SB389 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to abolishing the Major Events reimbursement program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-01 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB389 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB389-Introduced.html

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85R1953 DDT-D
By: Burton S.B. No. 389

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to abolishing the Major Events reimbursement program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 1(1-a), (2), (2-a), and (8), 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:
(1-a) "Endorsing county" means an endorsing county for
purposes of Section 5, [5A,] 5B, or 5C of this Act.
(2) "Endorsing municipality" means an endorsing
municipality for purposes of Section 4, 5, [5A,] 5B, or 5C of this
Act.
(2-a) "Event" means a game or event as defined by
Section [5A,] 5B[,] or 5C of this Act.
(8) "Site selection organization" means a site
selection organization as defined by Sections 5[, 5A,] and 5C of
this Act.
SECTION 2. Section 1(3), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of
the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14,
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapter 814 (S.B.
275), Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is
amended to read as follows:
(3) "Games" means the Pan American Games or [,] the
Olympic Games[, the Super Bowl, the National Collegiate Athletic
Association Final Four, the National Basketball Association
All-Star Game, the National Hockey League All-Star Game, the Major
League Baseball All-Star Game, the National Collegiate Athletic
Association Bowl Championship Series Games, the World Cup Soccer
Games, or the World Games]. The term includes the events and
activities related to the games.
SECTION 3. Section 7(a), 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:
(a) The department shall review requests from a local
organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county
that the department, on behalf of the state, enter into a games
support contract that is required by a site selection organization
in connection with the committee's, municipality's, or county's bid
to host any of the games. This section does not affect or apply to
an event support contract under Section [5A,] 5B[,] or 5C of this
Act to which the department is not a party.
SECTION 4. (a) On September 1, 2017:
(1) Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the
76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's
Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed; and
(2) each Major Events reimbursement program fund
established under Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the
76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's
Texas Civil Statutes), is abolished.
(b) The applicable provisions of Section 5A, Chapter 1507
(S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999
(Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as that section
existed immediately before the effective date of this Act,
including any fund established under that section, remain in effect
as those provisions apply in relation to the particular games or
events described by this subsection until all money from the fund
for the particular games or event has been disbursed and all
obligations under a games support contract or event support
contract for the particular games or event have been satisfied.
This subsection applies only if, before the effective date of this
Act:
(1) pursuant to an application by a local organizing
committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county, a site
selection organization selects a site in this state for a
particular event to which Section 5A, Chapter 1507, applies; and
(2) one or more games support contracts or event
support contracts for the particular games or event have been
entered into.
SECTION 5. The repeal by this Act of Section 5A, Chapter
1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session,
1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), does not
apply to an offense committed under Chapter 1507 before September
1, 2017. An offense committed before September 1, 2017, is governed
by the law as it existed on the date the offense was committed, and
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before September
1, 2017, if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.