1-1  By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 529
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 13, 1995; February 14, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
    1-4  March 15, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to remedies for unauthorized use of certain Olympic
    1-9  symbols.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 16, Business & Commerce
   1-12  Code, is amended by adding Section 16.30 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 16.30.  OLYMPIC SYMBOLS.  (a)  Without the permission of
   1-14  the United States Olympic Committee, a person may not, for the
   1-15  purpose of trade, to induce the sale of goods or services, or to
   1-16  promote a theatrical exhibition, athletic performance, or
   1-17  competition, use:
   1-18              (1)  the symbol of the International Olympic Committee,
   1-19  consisting of five interlocking rings;
   1-20              (2)  the emblem of the United States Olympic Committee,
   1-21  consisting of an escutcheon having a blue chief and vertically
   1-22  extending red and white bars on the base with five interlocking
   1-23  rings displayed on the chief;
   1-24              (3)  a trademark, trade name, sign, symbol, or insignia
   1-25  falsely representing association with or authorization by the
   1-26  International Olympic Committee or the United States Olympic
   1-27  Committee; or
   1-28              (4)  the words "Olympic," "Olympiad,"  or "Citius
   1-29  Altius Fortius" or a combination or simulation of those words that
   1-30  tends to cause confusion or mistake, to deceive, or to suggest
   1-31  falsely a connection with the United States Olympic Committee or an
   1-32  Olympic activity.
   1-33        (b)  On violation of Subsection (a), the United States
   1-34  Olympic Committee is entitled to the remedies available to a
   1-35  registrant on infringement of a mark registered under this chapter.
   1-36        SECTION 2.  (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-37  only to a violation of Section 16.30, Business & Commerce Code, as
   1-38  added by this Act, committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-39  Act.  For purposes of this section, a violation is committed before
   1-40  the effective date of this Act if any element of the violation
   1-41  occurs before that date.
   1-42        (b)  A violation committed before the effective date of this
   1-43  Act is covered by the law in effect when the violation was
   1-44  committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-45  purpose.
   1-46        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-47        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-48  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-49  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-50  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-51  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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