1-1 By: Cain S.B. No. 1842 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 30, 1999; March 30, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 April 26, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 26, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1842 By: Cain 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the regulation of pari-mutuel racing. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subdivision (21), Section 1.03, Texas Racing Act 1-13 (Article 179e, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read 1-14 as follows: 1-15 (21) (A) "Texas-bred quarter horse" and all breeds 1-16 other than thoroughbreds means a horse that is sired by a stallion 1-17 standing in Texas at the time of conception and foaled by a mare in 1-18 Texas, except that a mare may be bred outside Texas and brought 1-19 into Texas to foal and all foals sired and foaled under those 1-20 conditions in the mare's lifetime shall be considered "Texas-bred" 1-21 if the mare is bred back to a stallion standing in Texas. In all 1-22 instances any foal must qualify under the rules of the commission. 1-23 (B) "Texas-bred thoroughbred" means a horse that 1-24 is foaled by a mare in Texas. 1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-30 * * * * *