By Carona                                             H.B. No. 2285
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the demolition of a public building in certain
    1-3  municipalities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subtitle A. Title 9, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Chapter 282 to read as follows:
    1-7            CHAPTER 282.  DEMOLITION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN
    1-8                        CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES
    1-9        Sec. 282.001.  DEFINITION.  In this section, "public
   1-10  building" includes a civic center, civic center building, arena,
   1-11  auditorium, opera house, music hall, exhibition hall, coliseum,
   1-12  museum, library, or recreational building or facility.
   1-13        Sec. 282.002.  APPLICABILITY.  This chapter applies only to a
   1-14  municipality with a population of more than 1 million that has a
   1-15  city manager form of government.
   1-16        Sec. 282.003.  ELECTION REQUIRED FOR DEMOLITION OF CERTAIN
   1-17  PUBLIC BUILDINGS.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), a
   1-18  municipality may not demolish a public building if municipal debt
   1-19  created to finance the construction of the building remains
   1-20  outstanding or is transferred to any other public building.
   1-21        (b)  A municipality may demolish a public building for which
   1-22  outstanding municipal debt remains if, at a prior election held in
   1-23  the municipality, a majority of the votes cast approve the
    2-1  demolition of the building.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.