Bill Text: TX HB3294 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
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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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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