Amend CSSB 1678 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 1, lines 10 and 11, strike "(x) and (y)" and substitute "(a-2), (x), and (y)".
(2) On page 2, between lines 11 and 12, insert the following:
(a-2) Subsection (a-1)(1) of this section does not apply to an event that is the largest event held each year at a sports entertainment venue in this state with a permanent seating capacity, including grandstand and premium seating, of not less than 125,000. If an endorsing municipality or endorsing county requests the comptroller to make a determination under Subsection (b) of this section for an event described by this subsection, the provisions of this section apply to that event as if it satisfied the eligibility requirements for an event under Subsection (a-1)(1) of this section.
(3) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 5A(a)(4), Chapter 1507 (SB 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 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 X Games, 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, a Formula One automobile race, the Academy of Country Music Awards, the National Cutting Horse Association Triple Crown, [or] a national political convention of the Republican National Committee or the Democratic National Committee, or the largest event held each year at a sports entertainment venue in this state with a permanent seating capacity, including grandstand and premium seating, of not less than 125,000. The term includes any activities related to or associated with an event.