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  By: Burton S.B. No. 392
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to abolishing the Major Events Trust fund, the Events
  trust fund, and the Motor Sports Racing trust fund.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 1(1-a), (2), 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 or [,] 5[, 5A, 5B, or 5C] of
  this Act.
               (8)  "Site selection organization" means a site
  selection organization as defined by Section 5 [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)  Sections 1(2-a), 5A, 5B, and 5C, Chapter 1507
  (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999
  (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are repealed; and
               (2)  each fund established under Sections 1(2-a), 5A,
  5B, and 5C, 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 Sections 5A, 5B, and 5C,
  Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular
  Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as
  those sections existed immediately before the effective date of
  this Act, including any fund established under those sections,
  remain in effect as those provisions apply in relation to the
  particular events described by this subsection until all money from
  the fund for the particular event has been disbursed and all
  obligations under an event support contract for the particular
  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, 5B, or 5C, Chapter 1507,
  applies; and
               (2)  one or more event support contracts for the
  particular event have been entered into.
         SECTION 5.  The repeal by this Act of Sections 5A, 5B, and
  5C, 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.