Bill Text: TX SB391 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to abolishing the Events trust fund.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-01 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB391 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB391-Introduced.html

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85R1951 DDT-D
By: Burton S.B. No. 391

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to abolishing the Events trust fund.
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, or 5B[, or 5C] of this Act.
(2) "Endorsing municipality" means an endorsing
municipality for purposes of Section 4, 5, 5A, or 5B[, or 5C] of
this Act.
(2-a) "Event" means a game or event as defined by
Section 5A or [,]5B[, or 5C] of this Act.
(8) "Site selection organization" means a site
selection organization as defined by Sections 5 and [,] 5A[, and 5C]
of this Act.
SECTION 2. 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 or [,] 5B[, or 5C] of
this Act to which the department is not a party.
SECTION 3. (a) On September 1, 2017:
(1) Section 5C, 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Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed; and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 Events trust fund established under Section
5C, 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 5C, 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 trust fund established under that section, remain in
effect as those provisions apply in relation to the particular
events described by this subsection until all money from the trust
fund for the particular event has been disbursed and all
obligations under an event support contract for the particular
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 5C, Chapter 1507, applies; and
(2) one or more event support contracts for the
particular event have been entered into.
SECTION 4. The repeal by this Act of Section 5C, 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 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.