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.