84R31491 DDT-D
 
  By: Fraser S.B. No. 633
 
  (Isaac)
 
  Substitute the following for S.B. No. 633:  No.
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain event trust funds and the abolishment of the
  special event trust fund.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 4(i) and (l), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456),
  Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article
  5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapters 579
  (H.B. 1675) and 814 (S.B. 275), Acts of the 78th Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2003, are reenacted and amended to read as
  follows:
         (i)  The comptroller shall provide an estimate not later than
  September [December] 1 [, 2003,] of the year that is eight years
  before the year in which the games would be held in this state of the
  total amount of state and municipal tax revenue that would be  
  deposited in the Pan American Games trust fund before January 1 [,
  2012,] of the year following the year in which the games would be
  held, if the games were to be held in this state at a site selected
  pursuant to an application by a local organizing committee. The
  comptroller shall provide the estimate on request to a local
  organizing committee. A local organizing committee may submit the
  comptroller's estimate to a site selection organization.
         (l)  On January 1 [, 2013,] of the second year following the
  year in which the games are held in this state, the comptroller
  shall transfer to the general revenue fund any money remaining in
  the Pan American Games trust fund, not to exceed the amount of state
  revenue remaining in the trust fund, plus any interest earned on
  that state revenue. The comptroller shall remit to the endorsing
  municipality any money remaining in the trust fund after the
  required amount is transferred to the general revenue fund.
         SECTION 2.  Section 5A(a), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of
  the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14,
  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subdivision
  (4) and by amending Subdivision (5), as amended by S.B. 293, Acts of
  the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, 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 game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Bowl
  Championship Series or its successor or a National Collegiate
  Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
  postseason playoff or championship game, the National Collegiate
  Athletic Association men's or women's lacrosse championships, a
  World Cup Soccer game, the World Cup soccer tournament, the Major
  League Soccer All-Star Game, the Major League Soccer Cup, the
  Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association National Finals Rodeo, an
  Elite Rodeo Association World Championship, the United States Open
  Championship, 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 Amateur
  Athletic Union Junior Olympic Games, a mixed martial arts
  championship, the Breeders' Cup World Championships, a Formula One
  automobile race, the Moto Grand Prix of the United States, the
  Academy of Country Music Awards, the National Cutting Horse
  Association Triple Crown, a national political convention of the
  Republican National Committee or the Democratic National
  Committee, a presidential general election debate, 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.
               (5)  "Site selection organization" means:
                     (A)  the National Football League, the National
  Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Basketball
  Association, ESPN or an affiliate, the National Hockey League,
  Major League Baseball, the Federation Internationale de Football
  Association (FIFA), the International World Games Association, the
  National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), Dorna
  Sports, the Amateur Athletic Union, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys
  Association, the Elite Rodeo Association, Major League Soccer, the
  United States Golf Association, or the United States Olympic
  Committee;
                     (B)  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;
                     (D)  the National Cutting Horse Association;
                     (E)  the Republican National Committee or the
  Democratic National Committee; [or]
                     (F)  the Ultimate Fighting Championship; or
                     (G)  the Commission on Presidential Debates.
         SECTION 3.  Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the
  76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's
  Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (a-3) to
  read as follows:
         (a-3)  For purposes of Subsection (a-1) of this section, each
  presidential general election debate in a series of presidential
  debates before a general election is considered a separate, single
  event.
         SECTION 4.  Chapter 398, Local Government Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 5.  Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of
  Chapter 398, Local Government Code, a special event plan approved
  under former Chapter 398 of that code before September 1, 2015, is
  governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective
  date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.