By Gutierrez                                           H.B. No. 906
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the purposes for which certain industrial development
    1-3  corporations may use revenue from the sales and use tax.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 4A, Development Corporation Act of 1979
    1-6  (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-7  adding Subsection (q) to read as follows:
    1-8        (q)  In addition to the projects authorized by Section 2 of
    1-9  this Act and by Subsection (i) of this section, a corporation
   1-10  created under this section in a municipality that is located in a
   1-11  county that has a population of 250,000 or more, according to the
   1-12  most recent federal decennial census, and that borders on the
   1-13  Republic of Mexico or is adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico may
   1-14  undertake a project, the primary purpose of which is to provide
   1-15  land, buildings, equipment, facilities, and improvements found by
   1-16  the board of directors to be required or suitable for use for
   1-17  professional and amateur (including children's) sports, athletic,
   1-18  entertainment, tourist, convention, and public park purposes and
   1-19  events, including stadiums, ball parks, auditoriums, amphitheaters,
   1-20  concert halls, learning centers, parks and park facilities, open
   1-21  space improvements, municipal buildings, museums, exhibition
   1-22  facilities, and related store, restaurant, concession, and
   1-23  automobile parking facilities, related area transportation
   1-24  facilities, and related roads, streets, and water and sewer
    2-1  facilities, and other related improvements that enhance any of
    2-2  those items.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-9  passage, and it is so enacted.