By:  Harris of Tarrant                                S.B. No. 1315
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to allowable uses of the sales and use tax that may be
    1-2  levied for the benefit of certain industrial development
    1-3  corporations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION  1.  Subdivision (2), Subsection (a), Section 4B,
    1-6  Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended to 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 publicly owned and operated
   1-23  project purchased or constructed hereunder.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.