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


Bill Title: Relating to abolishing the Events trust fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

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

Download: Texas-2017-SB391-Introduced.html
  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  Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed; and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.
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