H.B. No. 2833 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a change of location of a racetrack and the conversion 1-3 of a reinstated racetrack license to a perpetual license. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 6.14, Texas Racing Act (Article 179e, 1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d) 1-7 to read as follows: 1-8 (d) On request of an association, the commission shall amend 1-9 a racetrack license to change the location of the racetrack if the 1-10 commission finds that: 1-11 (1) the conduct of race meetings at the proposed track 1-12 at the new location will be in the public interest; 1-13 (2) there was not a competing applicant for the 1-14 original license; and 1-15 (3) the association's desire to change location is not 1-16 the result of a subterfuge in the original licensing proceeding. 1-17 SECTION 2. Section 6.19(e), Texas Racing Act (Article 179e, 1-18 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-19 (e) A license reinstated under this section expires on the 1-20 second anniversary of the date that it is reinstated. The 1-21 commission shall convert a reinstated license to a perpetual 1-22 license if the commission finds that, on the date the reinstated 1-23 license will expire, construction or renovation of the racetrack 1-24 proposed by the association has been financed. 2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.