Bill Text: TX SB392 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to abolishing the Major Events Trust fund, the Events trust fund, and the Motor Sports Racing trust fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-01 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB392 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB392-Introduced.html
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By: Burton | S.B. No. 392 |
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relating to abolishing the Major Events Trust fund, the Events | ||
trust fund, and the Motor Sports Racing trust fund. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 1(1-a), (2), 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 or [ |
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this Act. | ||
(8) "Site selection organization" means a site | ||
selection organization as defined by Section 5 [ |
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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. [ |
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SECTION 4. (a) On September 1, 2017: | ||
(1) Sections 1(2-a), 5A, 5B, and 5C, Chapter 1507 | ||
(S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 | ||
(Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are repealed; and | ||
(2) each fund established under Sections 1(2-a), 5A, | ||
5B, and 5C, 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 Sections 5A, 5B, and 5C, | ||
Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as | ||
those sections existed immediately before the effective date of | ||
this Act, including any fund established under those sections, | ||
remain in effect as those provisions apply in relation to the | ||
particular events described by this subsection until all money from | ||
the fund for the particular event has been disbursed and all | ||
obligations under an event support contract for the particular | ||
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, 5B, or 5C, Chapter 1507, | ||
applies; and | ||
(2) one or more event support contracts for the | ||
particular event have been entered into. | ||
SECTION 5. The repeal by this Act of Sections 5A, 5B, and | ||
5C, 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. |