By Serna                                        H.B. No. 1328

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the designation of certain businesses as enterprise

 1-3     projects under the enterprise zone program.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2303.403, Government Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 2303.403.  PROHIBITION ON QUALIFIED BUSINESS

 1-8     CERTIFICATION.  (a)  If the department determines that the

 1-9     governing body of an enterprise zone is not complying with this

1-10     chapter, the department shall prohibit the certification of a

1-11     qualified business in the zone until the department determines that

1-12     the governing body is complying with this chapter.

1-13           (b)  The department may not designate more than 80 [65]

1-14     businesses as enterprise projects during any biennium.

1-15           (c)  A governing body of an enterprise zone may not have more

1-16     than:

1-17                 (1)  four qualified businesses designated as enterprise

1-18     projects per enterprise zone if all or part of the enterprise zone

1-19     is in the jurisdiction of a municipality with a population of more

1-20     than 50,000; or

1-21                 (2)  two qualified businesses designated as enterprise

1-22     projects per enterprise zone if all or part of the enterprise zone

1-23     is in the jurisdiction of a municipality with a population equal to

1-24     or less than 50,000.

 2-1           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-2           SECTION 3.  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.