By:  Cain, Wentworth                                  S.B. No. 1842
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the regulation of pari-mutuel racing.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (21), Section 1.03, Texas Racing Act
 1-4     (Article 179e, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
 1-5     as follows:
 1-6                 (21)(A)  "Texas-bred quarter horse" and all breeds
 1-7     other than thoroughbreds means a horse that is sired by a stallion
 1-8     standing in Texas at the time of conception and foaled by a mare in
 1-9     Texas, except that a mare may be bred outside Texas and brought
1-10     into Texas to foal and all foals sired and foaled under those
1-11     conditions in the mare's lifetime shall be considered "Texas-bred"
1-12     if the mare is bred back to a stallion standing in Texas.  In all
1-13     instances any foal must qualify under the rules of the commission.
1-14                       (B)  "Texas-bred thoroughbred" means a horse that
1-15     is foaled by a mare in Texas.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.