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.