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.