Bill Text: TX SB392 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to abolishing the Major Events Trust fund, the Events trust fund, and the Motor Sports Racing trust fund.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-01 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB392 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB392-Introduced.html

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85R1716 DDT-D
By: Burton S.B. No. 392

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to abolishing the Major Events Trust fund, the Events
trust fund, and the Motor Sports Racing trust fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 1(1-a), (2), 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 or [,] 5[, 5A, 5B, or 5C] of
this Act.
(8) "Site selection organization" means a site
selection organization as defined by Section 5 [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) Sections 1(2-a), 5A, 5B, and 5C, Chapter 1507
(S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999
(Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are repealed; and
(2) each fund established under Sections 1(2-a), 5A,
5B, and 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 Sections 5A, 5B, and 5C,
Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as
those sections existed immediately before the effective date of
this Act, including any fund established under those sections,
remain in effect as those provisions apply in relation to the
particular events described by this subsection until all money from
the 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 5A, 5B, or 5C, Chapter 1507,
applies; and
(2) one or more event support contracts for the
particular event have been entered into.
SECTION 5. The repeal by this Act of Sections 5A, 5B, and
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 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.