Bill Text: TX HB3294 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of events, including certain NASCAR events, to receive funding through the Major Events Reimbursement Program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2017-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB3294 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3294-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3294 |
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relating to the eligibility of events, including 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. 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 by amending Subsection (a-1) and | ||
adding Subsection (a-4) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) An event not listed in Subsection (a)(4) of this | ||
section is ineligible for funding under this section. A listed | ||
event may receive funding through the Major Events Reimbursement | ||
Program under this section only if: | ||
(1) a site selection organization selects a site | ||
located in this state for the event to be held one time or, for an | ||
event scheduled to be held each year for a period of years under an | ||
event contract, or an event support contract, one time each year for | ||
the period of years, after considering, through a highly | ||
competitive selection process, one or more sites that are not | ||
located in this state; | ||
(2) a site selection organization selects a site in | ||
this state as: | ||
(A) the sole site for the event; or | ||
(B) the sole site for the event in a region | ||
composed of this state and one or more adjoining states; | ||
(3) the event is held not more than one time in any | ||
year; [ |
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(4) the amount of the incremental increase in tax | ||
receipts determined by the department under Subsection (b) of this | ||
section equals or exceeds $1 million, provided that for an event | ||
scheduled to be held each year for a period of years under an event | ||
contract or event support contract, the incremental increase in tax | ||
receipts shall be calculated as if the event did not occur in the | ||
prior year; and | ||
(5) not later than the 30th day before the first day of | ||
the event, a site selection organization submits a plan to prevent | ||
the trafficking of persons in connection with the event to the | ||
office of the attorney general and the chief of the Texas Division | ||
of Emergency Management. | ||
(a-4) The office of the attorney general may: | ||
(1) distribute the plan required under Subsection | ||
(a-1)(5) of this section to appropriate law enforcement agencies | ||
and to the office of the governor; and | ||
(2) publish the plan on the office's Internet website. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 4. 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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3294 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 122, Nays 21, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 3294 on May 25, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 119, Nays 22, | ||
1 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3294 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 20, Nays | ||
11. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |