By Park 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. Section 4B(2), Development Corporation Act of 1-6 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to 1-7 read as follows: 1-8 (2) "Project" means land, buildings, equipment, 1-9 facilities, and improvements included in the definition of that 1-10 term under Section 2 of this Act and land, buildings, equipment, 1-11 facilities, and improvements found by the board of directors to be 1-12 required or suitable for use for professional and amateur 1-13 (including children's) sports, athletic, entertainment, tourist, 1-14 convention, and public park purposes and events, including 1-15 stadiums, ball parks, auditoriums, amphitheaters, concert halls, 1-16 learning centers, parks and park facilities, open space 1-17 improvements, municipal buildings, museums, exhibition facilities, 1-18 and related store, restaurant, concession, and automobile parking 1-19 facilities, related area transportation facilities, and related 1-20 roads, streets, and water and sewer facilities, and other related 1-21 improvements that enhance any of those items, and the maintenance 1-22 and operating costs for any such project if the facility or 1-23 structure does not generate sufficient revenue to cover more than 2-1 fifty percent of its maintenance and operating costs. 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.