By Nixon                                              H.B. No. 2063
       74R7284 KKA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the location of certain events sanctioned or conducted
    1-3  by the University Interscholastic League.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.921, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  The University Interscholastic League shall establish a
    1-8  procedure that allows municipalities to submit competitive bids to
    1-9  host a statewide event sanctioned or conducted by the league.  The
   1-10  league must provide a municipality with established criteria by
   1-11  which the league will evaluate a bid.  The league shall award a
   1-12  contract to host the event to the municipality whose bid best meets
   1-13  the league's criteria.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  Section 21.921(e), Education Code, as added by
   1-16  this Act, does not apply to an event sanctioned or conducted by the
   1-17  University Interscholastic League if the location of the event is
   1-18  controlled by a contract entered into before the effective date of
   1-19  this Act.
   1-20        SECTION 4.  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
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.