1-1 By: Harris of Tarrant S.B. No. 1315
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 26, 1993; March 30, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 April 22, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
1-5 Nays 0; April 22, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Parker x
1-9 Lucio x
1-10 Ellis x
1-11 Haley x
1-12 Harris of Dallas x
1-13 Harris of Tarrant x
1-14 Leedom x
1-15 Madla x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to allowable uses of the sales and use tax that may be
1-22 levied for the benefit of certain industrial development
1-23 corporations.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Subdivision (2), Subsection (a), Section 4B,
1-26 Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas
1-27 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-28 (2) "Project" means land, buildings, equipment,
1-29 facilities, and improvements included in the definition of that
1-30 term under Section 2 of this Act and land, buildings, equipment,
1-31 facilities, and improvements found by the board of directors to be
1-32 required or suitable for use for professional and amateur
1-33 (including children's) sports, athletic, entertainment, tourist,
1-34 convention, and public park purposes and events, including
1-35 stadiums, ball parks, auditoriums, amphitheaters, concert halls,
1-36 learning centers, parks and park facilities, open space
1-37 improvements, municipal buildings, museums, exhibition facilities,
1-38 and related store, restaurant, concession, and automobile parking
1-39 facilities, related area transportation facilities, and related
1-40 roads, streets, and water and sewer facilities, and other related
1-41 improvements that enhance any of those items, and the maintenance
1-42 and operating costs for any such publicly owned and operated
1-43 project purchased or constructed hereunder.
1-44 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-49 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-50 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-51 * * * * *
1-52 Austin,
1-53 Texas
1-54 April 22, 1993
1-55 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-56 President of the Senate
1-57 Sir:
1-58 We, your Committee on Economic Development to which was referred
1-59 S.B. No. 1315, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-60 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-61 that it do pass and be printed.
1-62 Parker,
1-63 Chairman
1-64 * * * * *
1-65 WITNESSES
1-66 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1315.