1-1  By:  Berlanga (Senate Sponsor - Truan)                H.B. No. 1453
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1993;
    1-3  April 19, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  International Relations, Trade, and Technology; April 21, 1993,
    1-5  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
    1-6  April 21, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Truan              x                               
   1-10        Barrientos         x                               
   1-11        Bivins             x                               
   1-12        Brown                                          x   
   1-13        Carriker           x                               
   1-14        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-15        Lucio              x                               
   1-16        Rosson             x                               
   1-17        Wentworth          x                               
   1-18                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-19                                AN ACT
   1-20  relating to ad valorem tax abatement in a reinvestment zone.
   1-21        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-22        SECTION 1.  Section 311.013(i), Tax Code, is amended to read
   1-23  as follows:
   1-24        (i)  Subsections (f) and (g) do not apply to a city with a
   1-25  population of more than 230,000 that borders <the Gulf of Mexico
   1-26  or> Mexico.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  Section 27, Chapter 1137, Acts of the 71st
   1-28  Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended  to read as follows:
   1-29        Sec. 27.  The change in law made by Section 25 of this Act
   1-30  does not apply to the payment of all or part of the tax increment
   1-31  produced by a taxing unit into the tax increment fund for a
   1-32  reinvestment zone for which the initial reinvestment zone financing
   1-33  plan has been approved by the governing body of the municipality
   1-34  before the effective date of this Act.  The payment of all or part
   1-35  of that tax increment into the tax increment fund is governed by
   1-36  the applicable law in effect immediately before the effective date
   1-37  of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-38  purpose.  <The provisions of Subsections (f) and (g) of Section
   1-39  311.013, Tax Code, as added by Section 25 of this Act shall not
   1-40  apply to cities of over 230,000 in population that border the Gulf
   1-41  of Mexico or Mexico.>
   1-42        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-43  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-44  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-45  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-46  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-48                                                         Austin,
   1-49  Texas
   1-50                                                         April 21, 1993
   1-51  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-52  President of the Senate
   1-53  Sir:
   1-54  We, your Committee on International Relations, Trade, and
   1-55  Technology to which was referred H.B. No. 1453, have had the same
   1-56  under consideration, and I am instructed to report it back to the
   1-57  Senate with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-58                                                         Truan,
   1-59  Chairman
   1-60                               * * * * *
   1-61                               WITNESSES
   1-62                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-63  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-64  Name:  Ms. Mary Rhodes, Mayor                    x
   1-65  Representing:  City of Corpus Christi
   1-66  City:  Corpus Christi
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   1-68  Name:  Mr. Buddy R. Venters                      x
    2-1  Representing:  Del Mar College
    2-2  City:  Corpus Christi
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