By: Brimer, Harris, Lucio S.B. No. 1424

(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2007; March 20, 2007, read first time and referred to Subcommittee on Emerging Technologies and Economic Development; April 10, 2007, reported favorably from Committee on Business and Commerce by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 10, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the municipalities authorized to use the other events trust fund to attract certain sporting events.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subdivision (2), Section 1, Chapter 1507, Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapters 579 and 814, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:

(2) "Endorsing municipality" means an endorsing municipality for purposes of Section 4, 5, [or] 5A, or 5B of this Act [a municipality that has a population of 850,000 or more according to the most recent federal decennial census and that authorizes a bid by a local organizing committee for selection of the municipality as the site of the 2011 Pan American Games or the 2012 Olympic Games].

SECTION 2. Subdivision (2), Subsection (a), Section 5A, Chapter 1507, Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

(2) "Endorsing municipality" means a municipality [that has a population of one million or more and] that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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