73R8467 LJD-F By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 2839 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to city and county fees on racetrack admissions. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 6.17(a), Texas Racing Act (Article 179e, 1-5 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) A commissioners court may collect a fee not to exceed 15 1-7 cents on each paid admission as an admission fee to a licensed 1-8 racetrack located within the county. If the racetrack is located 1-9 within an incorporated city or town, the governing body of the city 1-10 or town may collect a fee not to exceed 15 cents on each paid 1-11 admission as an admission fee to a licensed racetrack located 1-12 within the city or town. If the racetrack is not located within an 1-13 incorporated city or town, the court may collect an additional fee 1-14 not to exceed 15 cents on each paid admission as an admission fee 1-15 to a licensed racetrack located within the county for allocation 1-16 among the incorporated cities or towns in the county. If the 1-17 racetrack is not located in an incorporated city or town, the court 1-18 shall collect the additional fee on each paid admission if 1-19 requested to do so by the governing bodies of a majority of the 1-20 incorporated cities and towns in the county. Allocation of the 1-21 fees shall be based on the population within the county of the 1-22 cities or towns. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.