By Brady                                              H.B. No. 2394
       74R6788 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to restrictions on a lease or use agreement between a
    1-3  local governmental entity and a professional sports franchise.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 280, Local Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 280.002 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 280.002.  RESTRICTIONS ON LEASE OR USE OF CERTAIN
    1-8  FACILITIES BETWEEN LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY AND PROFESSIONAL
    1-9  SPORTS FRANCHISE.  (a) A local governmental entity may not agree to
   1-10  lease or allow the use of a facility by a professional sports
   1-11  franchise unless the professional sports franchise agrees in
   1-12  writing that any event played by the professional sports franchise
   1-13  and that is scheduled to be broadcast by radio or television
   1-14  anywhere in the United States will also be broadcast to the area
   1-15  within 100 miles of the facility and will not be subject to a
   1-16  broadcast ban or "blackout" if all the tickets to the event are
   1-17  sold one hour before the start of the event.
   1-18        (b)  In this section:
   1-19              (1)  "Facility" means a stadium, area, playing field,
   1-20  or other structure used for a sport or recreational activity owned
   1-21  or controlled by a local governmental entity.
   1-22              (2)  "Local governmental entity" means a municipality,
   1-23  county, sports facility district, other special district or
   1-24  authority, other political subdivision, or any combination of those
    2-1  entities.
    2-2              (3)  "Professional sports franchise" means a franchise
    2-3  for the operation of a sports team competing in a professional
    2-4  sports league, association, or other organization.
    2-5        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a lease or other
    2-6  contract between a local governmental entity and a professional
    2-7  sports franchise that is signed on or after the effective date of
    2-8  this Act.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-15  passage, and it is so enacted.