By: Parker, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Estes) H.B. No. 3294
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017;
May 11, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
Resources & Economic Development; May 18, 2017, reported favorably
by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 4, 1 present not voting;
May 18, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of certain NASCAR events to receive
funding through the Major Events Reimbursement Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 5A(a)(4), 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 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, the National Collegiate
Athletic Association men's or women's lacrosse championships, a
World Cup Soccer game, the World Cup soccer tournament, the Major
League Soccer All-Star Game, the Major League Soccer Cup, the
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association National Finals Rodeo, an
Elite Rodeo Association World Championship, the United States Open
Championship, 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 Amateur
Athletic Union Junior Olympic Games, a mixed martial arts
championship, the Breeders' Cup World Championships, a Formula One
automobile race, the Moto Grand Prix of the United States, the
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) All-Star
Race, the season-ending Championship Race for the National
Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), 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, a presidential
general election debate, 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.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a request submitted by a local organizing committee, endorsing
municipality, or endorsing county under Section 5A, Chapter 1507
(S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999
(Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), on or after the
effective date of this Act. A request submitted under Section 5A
before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the
request is submitted, and that law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. 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, 2017.
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