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.