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.