By Wilson H.B. No. 664 74R1887 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a referendum on whether certain municipalities should 1-3 create a sports facility district. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. REFERENDUM BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. At an 1-6 election to be held November 7, 1995, the voters of a municipality 1-7 with a population of more than 1.5 million shall be permitted to 1-8 vote in a referendum to express their opinion on whether their 1-9 municipality should create a sports facility district. 1-10 SECTION 2. BALLOT PROPOSITION. The ballot shall be printed 1-11 to permit voting for or against the proposition: "Recommending 1-12 that ___________ (name of municipality) create a sports facility 1-13 district without raising sales or property taxes." 1-14 SECTION 3. FORM OF BALLOT. The proposition shall be printed 1-15 on the ballot under the heading: "Referendum proposition." 1-16 Beneath the heading shall be printed the following: "This 1-17 referendum is an expression of public opinion only and has no 1-18 binding effect as law." 1-19 SECTION 4. ELECTION PROCEDURE. The election shall be 1-20 conducted in the same manner as an election on a proposition or 1-21 measure in the municipality. 1-22 SECTION 5. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-23 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.