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.