By:  Turner, S.                                       H.B. No. 1017
       73R5681 CAE-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of enterprise zones near certain prison
    1-3  facilities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 4(a), Texas Enterprise Zone Act (Article
    1-6  5190.7, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),  is amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (a)  An area of a municipality, county, or combination of
    1-9  these local governments may be designated as an enterprise zone if
   1-10  it:
   1-11              (1)  has a continuous boundary;
   1-12              (2)  is at least one square mile in size but does not
   1-13  exceed the larger of the following:
   1-14                    (A)  10 square miles (exclusive of lakes,
   1-15  waterways, and transportation arteries); or
   1-16                    (B)  five percent of the area of the
   1-17  municipality, county, or combination of municipalities or counties
   1-18  nominating the area as an enterprise zone, but not more than 20
   1-19  square miles (exclusive of lakes, waterways, and transportation
   1-20  arteries);
   1-21              (3)  has been nominated as an enterprise zone in an
   1-22  ordinance or order adopted by the legislative body of the
   1-23  applicable municipality, county, or combination of municipalities
   1-24  or counties; and
    2-1              (4)  is an area:
    2-2                    (A)  with pervasive poverty, unemployment, and
    2-3  economic distress; or
    2-4                    (B)  that is within five miles of the nearest
    2-5  boundary of the property on which a unit of the institutional
    2-6  division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or a
    2-7  correctional facility authorized by Chapter 495, Government Code,
    2-8  is located.
    2-9        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-10        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.