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House Bill 1524 |
House Author: Guillen et al. |
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Effective: 6-15-07 |
Senate Sponsor: Zaffirini |
House Bill 1524 amends the Local Government Code to authorize certain counties to develop a parks and recreation system as a venue project in the same manner as a municipality. The county maintains this authority even if at a later time a part of the county becomes incorporated in a municipality. The bill also authorizes a municipality or county that has already approved a venue project to hold a separate election to approve the use of revenue to finance a related project, but it prohibits these entities from changing the rate of the tax or the method of financing and from using revenue from a hotel occupancy tax.