Bill Text: TX SB601 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of Elite Rodeo Association World Championships for funding from the Major Events trust fund.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-18 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB601 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB601-Comm_Sub.html
| By: West | S.B. No. 601 | |
| (Bell, Johnson, Villalba, Meyer) | ||
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| relating to the eligibility of Elite Rodeo Association World | ||
| Championships for funding from the Major Events trust fund. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 5A(a)(4) and (5), 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: | ||
| (4) "Event" means a Super Bowl, a National Collegiate | ||
| Athletic Association Final Four tournament game, the National | ||
| Basketball Association All-Star Game, the X Games, 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, an Elite Rodeo Association World Championship, 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, a mixed martial arts championship, the | ||
| Breeders' Cup World Championships, a Formula One automobile race, | ||
| the Academy of Country Music Awards, the National Cutting Horse | ||
| Association Triple Crown, a national political convention of the | ||
| Republican National Committee or the Democratic National | ||
| Committee, or the largest event held each year at a sports | ||
| entertainment venue in this state with a permanent seating | ||
| capacity, including grandstand and premium seating, of not less | ||
| than 125,000. The term includes any activities related to or | ||
| associated with an event. | ||
| (5) "Site selection organization" means: | ||
| (A) the National Football League, the National | ||
| Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Basketball | ||
| Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, the | ||
| Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the | ||
| International World Games Association, the Elite Rodeo | ||
| Association, or the United States Olympic Committee; | ||
| (B) the national governing body of a sport that | ||
| is recognized by the United States Olympic Committee, the National | ||
| Thoroughbred Racing Association, Formula One Management Limited, | ||
| or the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile; | ||
| (C) the Academy of Country Music; | ||
| (D) the National Cutting Horse Association; or | ||
| (E) the Republican National Committee or the | ||
| Democratic National Committee. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
