74R9844 DAK-F
          By Brimer                                              H.B. No. 788
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 788:
          By Yarbrough                                       C.S.H.B. No. 788
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of a municipality to create an industrial
    1-3  development corporation and to levy a sales and use tax to carry
    1-4  out the projects of the corporation.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 4B(a)(1), Development Corporation Act of
    1-7  1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
    1-8  read as follows:
    1-9              (1)  "Eligible city" means a city:
   1-10                    (A)  that is located in a county with a
   1-11  population of 750,000 or more, according to the most recent federal
   1-12  decennial census and in which the combined rate of all sales and
   1-13  use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other political
   1-14  subdivisions of the state having territory in the city does not
   1-15  exceed 7.25 percent on the date of any election held under or made
   1-16  applicable to this section;
   1-17                    (B)  that has a population of 400,000 or more,
   1-18  according to the most recent federal decennial census, and that is
   1-19  located in more than one county, and in which the combined rate of
   1-20  all sales and use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other
   1-21  political subdivisions of the state having territory in the city,
   1-22  including taxes under this section, does not exceed 8.25 percent;
   1-23  <or>
   1-24                    (C)  that is located in a county with a
    2-1  population of more than 1,100,000 according to the most recent
    2-2  federal decennial census, in which there are more than 40
    2-3  incorporated municipalities according to the most recent federal
    2-4  decennial census, and in which the combined rate of all sales and
    2-5  use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other political
    2-6  subdivisions of the state having territory in the city does not
    2-7  exceed 7.75 percent on the date of any election held under or made
    2-8  applicable to this section; or
    2-9                    (D)  to which Section 4A of this Act applies.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-16  passage, and it is so enacted.