By: Martin H.B. No. 1683
73R5084 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility of a municipality to create an economic
1-3 development corporation.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4A(a), 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 (a) This section applies only to a city:
1-9 (1) located in a county with a population of 500,000
1-10 or fewer according to the most recent federal decennial census; or
1-11 (2) with a population of fewer than 50,000 according
1-12 to the most recent federal decennial census that:
1-13 (A) is located in two or more counties, one of
1-14 which has a population of 500,000 or greater according to the most
1-15 recent federal decennial census;
1-16 (B) is located within the territorial limits but
1-17 has not elected to become a part of a metropolitan rapid transit
1-18 authority that has a principal city with a population of less than
1-19 1.2 million according to the most recent federal decennial census,
1-20 with such authority being created before January 1, 1980, under
1-21 Chapter 141, Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973
1-22 (Article 1118x, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); <or>
1-23 (C) is located within the territorial limits but
1-24 has not elected to become a part of a metropolitan rapid transit
2-1 authority that has a principal city with a population of more than
2-2 750,000 according to the most recent federal decennial census, with
2-3 such authority being created under Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th
2-4 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas
2-5 Civil Statutes); or
2-6 (D) contains or is contiguous to an industrial
2-7 and commercial port serving the Gulf of Mexico.
2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.