By Wilson                                             H.B. No. 2724
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to allocation of racedates at certain racetracks.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Amend Article 8, Texas Racing Act (Article 179e,
    1-5  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section 8.011
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 8.011.  CLASS 3 RACETRACK RACEDATES.  A non-profit class
    1-8  3 racetrack that has conducted races with pari-mutuel wagering for
    1-9  three consecutive years prior to January 1, 1994, shall, upon
   1-10  request, be allocated the same days it has run during any of those
   1-11  three years.  The Commission shall not allocate such days selected
   1-12  by a non-profit class 3 racetrack to any racetrack, for either
   1-13  simulcast or live racing, located within 75 miles of such
   1-14  non-profit class 3 racetrack without the written agreement of the
   1-15  affected non-profit class 3 racetrack.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes affect September 1, 1993.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.