Bill Text: TX SB398 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to conforming the eligibility under a major events trust fund of a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision postseason event with the changes to the Bowl Championship Series system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-04-17 - Effective immediately [SB398 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB398-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 398 |
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relating to conforming the eligibility under a major events trust | ||
fund of a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I | ||
Football Bowl Subdivision postseason event with the changes to the | ||
Bowl Championship Series system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subdivision (4), Subsection (a), Section 5A, | ||
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 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, a World Cup Soccer game, 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 Breeders' | ||
Cup World Championships, a Formula One automobile race, the Academy | ||
of Country Music Awards, the National Cutting Horse Association | ||
Triple Crown, or a national political convention of the Republican | ||
National Committee or the Democratic National Committee. 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, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 398 passed the Senate on | ||
March 13, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 398 passed the House on | ||
April 12, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 4, one | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |