By: Hancock S.B. No. 398
(Patrick)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.