By:  Patterson, J.                                     S.B. No. 643
       73R4809 LJD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to projects undertaken by certain industrial development
    1-3  corporations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 4A, Development Corporation Act of 1979
    1-6  (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-7  amending Subsection (i) and adding Subsection (i-1) to read as
    1-8  follows:
    1-9        (i)  Except as provided by this subsection or by Subsection
   1-10  (i-1) of this section, the corporation may not undertake a project
   1-11  the primary purpose of which is to provide transportation
   1-12  facilities, solid waste disposal facilities, or air or water
   1-13  pollution control facilities.  However, the corporation may provide
   1-14  those facilities to benefit property acquired for a project having
   1-15  another primary purpose.  The corporation may undertake a municipal
   1-16  water supply project and provide related transmission and treatment
   1-17  facilities connected with a municipally owned or operated water
   1-18  system or sewage system.  The corporation may undertake a project
   1-19  the primary purpose of which is to provide:
   1-20              (1)  a general aviation business service airport that
   1-21  is an integral part of an industrial park; or
   1-22              (2)  port-related facilities to support waterborne
   1-23  commerce.
   1-24        (i-1)  Notwithstanding Subsection (i) of this section, the
    2-1  corporation may undertake a project found by the board of directors
    2-2  of the corporation to promote or develop new or expanded business
    2-3  enterprises, including a project to provide public safety
    2-4  facilities, streets and roads, drainage and related improvements,
    2-5  demolition of existing structures, convention centers, tourist
    2-6  centers, learning centers, exhibition facilities, municipal
    2-7  buildings, general municipally owned improvements, as well as any
    2-8  improvements or facilities that are related to any of those
    2-9  projects and any other project that the board in its discretion
   2-10  determines promotes or develops new or expanded business
   2-11  enterprises.  A finding made by the board of directors of the
   2-12  corporation for purposes of this subsection is conclusive.
   2-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-19  passage, and it is so enacted.