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.