By Wilson                                             H.B. No. 2725
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the classification of racetracks.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 6.02(c), Texas Racing Act (Article 1793,
    1-5  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  A class 2 racetrack is a racetrack on which live racing
    1-7  is conducted for a number of days to be determined by the
    1-8  commission under Article 8 of this Act. A class 2 racetrack located
    1-9  more than 60 miles from a Class 3 racetrack is entitled to conduct
   1-10  60 days of live racing in a calendar year.  An association may
   1-11  request additional or fewer days of live racing.  If after receipt
   1-12  of a request from an association the commission determines
   1-13  additional or fewer days to be economically feasible and in the
   1-14  best interest of the state and the racing industry, the commission
   1-15  shall grant the additional or fewer days. The commission may permit
   1-16  an association that holds a class 2 racetrack license and that is
   1-17  located in a national historic district to conduct horse races for
   1-18  more than 60 days in a calendar year.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.