Bill Text: TX SB389 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to abolishing the Major Events reimbursement program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-01 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB389 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB389-Introduced.html
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By: Burton | S.B. No. 389 |
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relating to abolishing the Major Events reimbursement program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 1(1-a), (2), (2-a), and (8), 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: | ||
(1-a) "Endorsing county" means an endorsing county for | ||
purposes of Section 5, [ |
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(2) "Endorsing municipality" means an endorsing | ||
municipality for purposes of Section 4, 5, [ |
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Act. | ||
(2-a) "Event" means a game or event as defined by | ||
Section [ |
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(8) "Site selection organization" means a site | ||
selection organization as defined by Sections 5[ |
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this Act. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1(3), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of | ||
the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, | ||
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapter 814 (S.B. | ||
275), Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(3) "Games" means the Pan American Games or [ |
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Olympic Games[ |
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activities related to the games. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 7(a), 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: | ||
(a) The department shall review requests from a local | ||
organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county | ||
that the department, on behalf of the state, enter into a games | ||
support contract that is required by a site selection organization | ||
in connection with the committee's, municipality's, or county's bid | ||
to host any of the games. This section does not affect or apply to | ||
an event support contract under Section [ |
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Act to which the department is not a party. | ||
SECTION 4. (a) On September 1, 2017: | ||
(1) Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the | ||
76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's | ||
Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed; and | ||
(2) each Major Events reimbursement program fund | ||
established under Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the | ||
76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's | ||
Texas Civil Statutes), is abolished. | ||
(b) The applicable provisions of Section 5A, Chapter 1507 | ||
(S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 | ||
(Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as that section | ||
existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, | ||
including any fund established under that section, remain in effect | ||
as those provisions apply in relation to the particular games or | ||
events described by this subsection until all money from the fund | ||
for the particular games or event has been disbursed and all | ||
obligations under a games support contract or event support | ||
contract for the particular games or event have been satisfied. | ||
This subsection applies only if, before the effective date of this | ||
Act: | ||
(1) pursuant to an application by a local organizing | ||
committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county, a site | ||
selection organization selects a site in this state for a | ||
particular event to which Section 5A, Chapter 1507, applies; and | ||
(2) one or more games support contracts or event | ||
support contracts for the particular games or event have been | ||
entered into. | ||
SECTION 5. The repeal by this Act of Section 5A, Chapter | ||
1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, | ||
1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), does not | ||
apply to an offense committed under Chapter 1507 before September | ||
1, 2017. An offense committed before September 1, 2017, is governed | ||
by the law as it existed on the date the offense was committed, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before September | ||
1, 2017, if any element of the offense occurred before that date. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |