S.B. No. 1038




AN ACT
relating to authorizing a special events trust fund to support certain Olympic events, including training and development activities. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subdivisions (1), (4), and (5), Subsection (a), Section 5A, Chapter 1507, Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows: (1) "Endorsing county" means a county [that has a population of one million or more and] that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games. (4) "Game" means a Super Bowl, a National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four tournament game, the National Basketball Association All-Star Game, the National Hockey League All-Star Game, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, a National Collegiate Athletic Association Bowl Championship Series game, a World Cup Soccer game, [or] 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, or 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 term includes any events and activities related to or associated with the games. (5) "Site selection organization" means the National Football League, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), [or] the International World Games Association, the United States Olympic Committee, or the national governing body of a sport that is recognized as such by the United States Olympic Committee. SECTION 2. Subsection (q), Section 5A, Chapter 1507, Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (Article 5190.14, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
______________________________ ______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1038 passed the Senate on May 5, 2005, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 0; and that the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 2005, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. ______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1038 passed the House, with amendment, on May 25, 2005, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present not voting. ______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: ______________________________ Date ______________________________ Governor