Bill Text: TX HB2402 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain events to receive funding through the Major Events Reimbursement Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2402 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2402-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2402 | ||
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| relating to the eligibility of certain events to receive funding | ||
| through the Major Events Reimbursement Program. | ||
| 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 Big 12 Football | ||
| Conference 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, a World Wrestling Entertainment WrestleMania event, | ||
| 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 | ||
| championship event in the National Reined Cow Horse Association | ||
| (NRCHA) Championship Series, a CONVRG conference, 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. | ||
| (5) "Site selection organization" means: | ||
| (A) the National Football League, the National | ||
| Collegiate Athletic Association, the Big 12 Conference, the | ||
| National Basketball Association, ESPN or an affiliate, the National | ||
| Hockey League, Major League Baseball, the Federation | ||
| Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the International | ||
| World Games Association, the National Association for Stock Car | ||
| Auto Racing (NASCAR), Dorna Sports, the Amateur Athletic Union, the | ||
| Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, the Elite Rodeo | ||
| Association, Major League Soccer, the United States Golf | ||
| 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; | ||
| (E) the National Reined Cow Horse Association | ||
| (NRCHA); | ||
| (F) Encore Live; | ||
| (G) the Republican National Committee or the | ||
| Democratic National Committee; | ||
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| (I) World Wrestling Entertainment; or | ||
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| Debates. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2402 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 116, Nays 27, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 2402 on May 20, 2019, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 2402 on May 25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 122, | ||
| Nays 18, 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2402 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays | ||
| 5; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 2402 on May 25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 4. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
