By Dutton H.B. No. 2847 74R8061 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to venue of suits involving the issue of boxing 1-3 championships. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Texas Boxing and Wrestling Act (Article 1-6 8501-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section 1-7 12 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 12. REVIEW OF DECISIONS RELATING TO BOXING 1-9 CHAMPIONSHIPS. An entity, including a national or international 1-10 boxing association, commission, or federation, that in any respect 1-11 sanctions, recognizes, or is affiliated with a boxing exhibition in 1-12 this state may not strip or divest a resident of this state of any 1-13 championship title awarded by the entity without filing 1-14 notification of the entity's action with the department and 1-15 receiving the approval of the commissioner. A party aggrieved by 1-16 the decision of the commissioner may secure judicial review under 1-17 Section 5 of this Act. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.