By Park H.B. No. 1177 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1177: By Yarbrough C.S.H.B. No. 1177 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the sales and use tax that may be levied for the 1-3 benefit of certain industrial development corporations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (a)(2), Section 4B, Article 5190.6, 1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (2) "Project" means land, buildings, equipment, 1-8 facilities, and improvements included in the definition of that 1-9 term under Section 2 of this Act and land, buildings, equipment, 1-10 facilities, and improvements found by the board of directors to be 1-11 required or suitable for use for professional and amateur 1-12 (including children's) sports, athletic, entertainment, tourist, 1-13 convention, and public park purposes and events, including 1-14 stadiums, ball parks, auditoriums, amphitheaters, concert halls, 1-15 learning centers, parks and park facilities, open space 1-16 improvements, municipal buildings, museums, exhibition facilities, 1-17 and related roads, streets, and water and sewer facilities, and 1-18 other related improvements that enhance any of those items, and the 1-19 maintenance and operating costs for any such publicly owned and 1-20 operated project purchased and constructed hereunder. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.