By: Gutierrez H.B. No. 906 73R1266 CBH-F 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 300,000 or more, according to the 1-12 most recent federal decennial census, and that borders on the 1-13 Republic of Mexico may undertake a project, the primary purpose of 1-14 which is to provide land, buildings, equipment, facilities, and 1-15 improvements found by the board of directors to be required or 1-16 suitable for use for professional and amateur (including 1-17 children's) sports, athletic, entertainment, tourist, convention, 1-18 and public park purposes and events, including stadiums, ball 1-19 parks, auditoriums, amphitheaters, concert halls, learning centers, 1-20 parks and park facilities, open space improvements, municipal 1-21 buildings, museums, exhibition facilities, and related store, 1-22 restaurant, concession, and automobile parking facilities, related 1-23 area transportation facilities, and related roads, streets, and 1-24 water and sewer facilities, and other related improvements that 2-1 enhance any of those items. 2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.