By: Harris  S.B. No. 309
         (In the Senate - Filed January 3, 2011; February 2, 2011,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
  March 14, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 0; March 14, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the events eligible to receive funding through a major
  events trust fund.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subdivisions (4) and (5), Subsection (a),
  Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature,
  Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil
  Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
               (4)  "Event" means a Super Bowl, a National Collegiate
  Athletic Association Final Four tournament game, the National
  Basketball Association All-Star Game, the National Hockey League
  All-Star Game, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, a National
  Collegiate Athletic Association Bowl Championship Series game, a
  World Cup Soccer game, the World Games, a national collegiate
  championship of an amateur sport sanctioned by the national
  governing body of the sport that is recognized by the United States
  Olympic Committee, an Olympic activity, including a Junior or
  Senior activity, training program, or feeder program sanctioned by
  the United States Olympic Committee's Community Olympic
  Development Program, the Breeders' Cup World Championships, [or] a
  Formula One automobile race, the Academy of Country Music Awards,
  or a national political convention of the Republican National
  Committee or the Democratic National Committee.  The term includes
  any activities related to or associated with an event.
               (5)  "Site selection organization" means:
                     (A)  the National Football League, the National
  Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Basketball
  Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, the
  Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the
  International World Games Association, or the United States Olympic
  Committee;
                     (B)  [or] the national governing body of a sport
  that is recognized by the United States Olympic Committee, the
  National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Formula One Management
  Limited, or the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile;
                     (C)  the Academy of Country Music; or
                     (D)  the Republican National Committee or the
  Democratic National Committee.
         SECTION 2.  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, 2011.
 
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