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.