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          A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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          AN ACT
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        relating to certain event trust funds and the abolishment of the  | 
      
      
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        special event trust fund. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Sections 4(i) and (l), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456),  | 
      
      
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        Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article  | 
      
      
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        5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapters 579  | 
      
      
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        (H.B. 1675) and 814 (S.B. 275), Acts of the 78th Legislature,  | 
      
      
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        Regular Session, 2003, are reenacted and amended to read as  | 
      
      
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        follows: | 
      
      
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               (i)  The comptroller shall provide an estimate not later than  | 
      
      
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        September [December] 1 [, 2003,] of the year that is eight years  | 
      
      
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        before the year in which the games would be held in this state of the  | 
      
      
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        total amount of state and municipal tax revenue that would be   | 
      
      
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        deposited in the Pan American Games trust fund before January 1 [, 
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          2012,] of the year following the year in which the games would be  | 
      
      
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        held, if the games were to be held in this state at a site selected  | 
      
      
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        pursuant to an application by a local organizing committee.  The  | 
      
      
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        comptroller shall provide the estimate on request to a local  | 
      
      
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        organizing committee.  A local organizing committee may submit the  | 
      
      
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        comptroller's estimate to a site selection organization. | 
      
      
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               (l)  On January 1 [, 2013,] of the second year following the  | 
      
      
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        year in which the games are held in this state, the comptroller  | 
      
      
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        shall transfer to the general revenue fund any money remaining in  | 
      
      
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        the Pan American Games trust fund, not to exceed the amount of state  | 
      
      
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        revenue remaining in the trust fund, plus any interest earned on  | 
      
      
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        that state revenue.  The comptroller shall remit to the endorsing  | 
      
      
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        municipality any money remaining in the trust fund after the  | 
      
      
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        required amount is transferred to the general revenue fund. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  Section 5A(a), Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of  | 
      
      
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        the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14,  | 
      
      
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        Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subdivision  | 
      
      
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        (4) and by amending Subdivision (5), as amended by S.B. 293, Acts of  | 
      
      
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        the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, to read as follows: | 
      
      
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                     (4)  "Event" means a Super Bowl, a National Collegiate  | 
      
      
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        Athletic Association Final Four tournament game, the National  | 
      
      
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        Basketball Association All-Star Game, the X Games, the National  | 
      
      
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        Hockey League All-Star Game, the Major League Baseball All-Star  | 
      
      
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        Game, a game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Bowl  | 
      
      
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        Championship Series or its successor or a National Collegiate  | 
      
      
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        Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision  | 
      
      
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        postseason playoff or championship game, the National Collegiate  | 
      
      
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        Athletic Association men's or women's lacrosse championships, a  | 
      
      
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        World Cup Soccer game, the World Cup soccer tournament, the Major  | 
      
      
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        League Soccer All-Star Game, the Major League Soccer Cup, the  | 
      
      
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        Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association National Finals Rodeo, an  | 
      
      
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        Elite Rodeo Association World Championship, the United States Open  | 
      
      
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        Championship, the World Games, a national collegiate championship  | 
      
      
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        of an amateur sport sanctioned by the national governing body of the  | 
      
      
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        sport that is recognized by the United States Olympic Committee, an  | 
      
      
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        Olympic activity, including a Junior or Senior activity, training  | 
      
      
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        program, or feeder program sanctioned by the United States Olympic  | 
      
      
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        Committee's Community Olympic Development Program, the Amateur  | 
      
      
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        Athletic Union Junior Olympic Games, a mixed martial arts  | 
      
      
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        championship, the Breeders' Cup World Championships, a Formula One  | 
      
      
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        automobile race, the Moto Grand Prix of the United States, the  | 
      
      
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        Academy of Country Music Awards, the National Cutting Horse  | 
      
      
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        Association Triple Crown, a national political convention of the  | 
      
      
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        Republican National Committee or the Democratic National  | 
      
      
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        Committee, a presidential general election debate, or the largest  | 
      
      
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        event held each year at a sports entertainment venue in this state  | 
      
      
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        with a permanent seating capacity, including grandstand and premium  | 
      
      
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        seating, of not less than 125,000.  The term includes any  | 
      
      
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        activities related to or associated with an event. | 
      
      
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                     (5)  "Site selection organization" means: | 
      
      
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                           (A)  the National Football League, the National  | 
      
      
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        Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Basketball  | 
      
      
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        Association, ESPN or an affiliate, the National Hockey League,  | 
      
      
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        Major League Baseball, the Federation Internationale de Football  | 
      
      
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        Association (FIFA), the International World Games Association, the  | 
      
      
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        National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), Dorna  | 
      
      
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        Sports, the Amateur Athletic Union, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys  | 
      
      
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        Association, the Elite Rodeo Association, Major League Soccer, the  | 
      
      
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        United States Golf Association, or the United States Olympic  | 
      
      
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        Committee; | 
      
      
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                           (B)  the national governing body of a sport that  | 
      
      
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        is recognized by the United States Olympic Committee, the National  | 
      
      
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        Thoroughbred Racing Association, Formula One Management Limited,  | 
      
      
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        or the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile; | 
      
      
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                           (C)  the Academy of Country Music; | 
      
      
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                           (D)  the National Cutting Horse Association; | 
      
      
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                           (E)  the Republican National Committee or the  | 
      
      
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        Democratic National Committee; [or] | 
      
      
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                           (F)  the Ultimate Fighting Championship; or | 
      
      
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                           (G)  the Commission on Presidential Debates. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  Section 5A, Chapter 1507 (S.B. 456), Acts of the  | 
      
      
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        76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's  | 
      
      
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        Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (a-3) to  | 
      
      
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        read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (a-3)  For purposes of Subsection (a-1) of this section, each  | 
      
      
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        presidential general election debate in a series of presidential  | 
      
      
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        debates before a general election is considered a separate, single  | 
      
      
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        event. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 4.  Chapter 398, Local Government Code, is repealed. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 5.  Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of  | 
      
      
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        Chapter 398, Local Government Code, a special event plan approved  | 
      
      
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        under former Chapter 398 of that code before September 1, 2015, is  | 
      
      
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        governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective  | 
      
      
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        date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that  | 
      
      
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        purpose. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |