1-1 By: Jones of Lubbock (Senate Sponsor - Montford) H.B. No. 2833
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 May 13, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 12,
1-5 Nays 0; May 13, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Montford x
1-9 Turner x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Ellis x
1-14 Haley x
1-15 Moncrief x
1-16 Parker x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Sims x
1-19 Truan x
1-20 Zaffirini x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to a change of location of a racetrack and the conversion
1-24 of a reinstated racetrack license to a perpetual license.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 6.14, Texas Racing Act (Article 179e,
1-27 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d)
1-28 to read as follows:
1-29 (d) On request of an association, the commission shall amend
1-30 a racetrack license to change the location of the racetrack if the
1-31 commission finds that:
1-32 (1) the conduct of race meetings at the proposed track
1-33 at the new location will be in the public interest;
1-34 (2) there was not a competing applicant for the
1-35 original license; and
1-36 (3) the association's desire to change location is not
1-37 the result of a subterfuge in the original licensing proceeding.
1-38 SECTION 2. Section 6.19(e), Texas Racing Act (Article 179e,
1-39 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-40 (e) A license reinstated under this section expires on the
1-41 second anniversary of the date that it is reinstated. The
1-42 commission shall convert a reinstated license to a perpetual
1-43 license if the commission finds that, on the date the reinstated
1-44 license will expire, construction or renovation of the racetrack
1-45 proposed by the association has been financed.
1-46 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-47 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-48 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-49 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-50 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-51 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-52 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-53 * * * * *
1-54 Austin,
1-55 Texas
1-56 May 13, 1993
1-57 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-58 President of the Senate
1-59 Sir:
1-60 We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred H.B. No. 2833,
1-61 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-62 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-63 pass and be printed.
1-64 Montford,
1-65 Chairman
1-66 * * * * *
1-67 WITNESSES
1-68 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2833.