Tex. Occ. Code § 2025.056 · Subchapter B. RACETRACK LICENSE APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
BACKGROUND CHECK.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission shall require a complete personal, financial, and business background check of the applicant or of any person who owns an interest in or exercises control over an applicant for a racetrack license, including the partners, stockholders, concessionaires, management personnel, management firms, and creditors.
(b) The commission shall refuse to issue or renew a license if, in the commission's sole discretion, the background checks reveal anything that may be detrimental to the public interest or the racing industry.
(c) The commission may not hold a hearing on the application, or any part of the application, of a racetrack license applicant before the 14th day after the date the completed background check of the applicant has been on file with the commission.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 963 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2019.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.2025.htm
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