85R1953 DDT-D

By: Burton S.B. No. 389

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to abolishing the Major Events reimbursement program.

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

SECTION 1. Sections 1(1-a), (2), (2-a), and (8), 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:

(1-a) "Endorsing county" means an endorsing county for purposes of Section 5, [5A,] 5B, or 5C of this Act.

(2) "Endorsing municipality" means an endorsing municipality for purposes of Section 4, 5, [5A,] 5B, or 5C of this Act.

(2-a) "Event" means a game or event as defined by Section [5A,] 5B[,] or 5C of this Act.

(8) "Site selection organization" means a site selection organization as defined by Sections 5[, 5A,] and 5C of this Act.

SECTION 2. Section 1(3), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapter 814 (S.B. 275), Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is amended to read as follows:

(3) "Games" means the Pan American Games or [,] the Olympic Games[, the Super Bowl, the National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four, the National Basketball Association All-Star Game, the National Hockey League All-Star Game, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the National Collegiate Athletic Association Bowl Championship Series Games, the World Cup Soccer Games, or the World Games]. The term includes the events and activities related to the games.

SECTION 3. Section 7(a), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

(a) The department shall review requests from a local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county that the department, on behalf of the state, enter into a games support contract that is required by a site selection organization in connection with the committee's, municipality's, or county's bid to host any of the games. This section does not affect or apply to an event support contract under Section [5A,] 5B[,] or 5C of this Act to which the department is not a party.

SECTION 4. (a) On September 1, 2017:

(1) Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed; and

(2) each Major Events reimbursement program fund established under Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is abolished.

(b) The applicable provisions of Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as that section existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, including any fund established under that section, remain in effect as those provisions apply in relation to the particular games or events described by this subsection until all money from the fund for the particular games or event has been disbursed and all obligations under a games support contract or event support contract for the particular games or event have been satisfied. This subsection applies only if, before the effective date of this Act:

(1) pursuant to an application by a local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county, a site selection organization selects a site in this state for a particular event to which Section 5A, Chapter 1507, applies; and

(2) one or more games support contracts or event support contracts for the particular games or event have been entered into.

SECTION 5. The repeal by this Act of Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), does not apply to an offense committed under Chapter 1507 before September 1, 2017. An offense committed before September 1, 2017, is governed by the law as it existed on the date the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed before September 1, 2017, if any element of the offense occurred before that date.

SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.