By Heflin                                       H.B. No. 3304

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to approval by voters of the establishment of certain

 1-3     county development districts.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 312.613, Tax Code, is amended to read as

 1-6     follows:

 1-7           Sec. 312.613.  CONFIRMATION AND SALES AND USE TAX ELECTION.

 1-8     The temporary board of directors shall conduct an election within

 1-9     the boundaries of the district to confirm the creation of the

1-10     district and authorize a sales and use tax in conformity with this

1-11     subchapter.  If the proposed district has fewer than 100 registered

1-12     voters residing within its boundaries, the temporary board of

1-13     directors shall conduct an election that includes registered voters

1-14     residing within the entire county commissioner precinct in which

1-15     the district is located.

1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 312.637(a), Tax Code, is amended to read

1-17     as follows:

1-18           (a)  A district may levy a sales and use tax for the benefit

1-19     of the district if authorized by a majority of the qualified voters

1-20     of the district voting at an election called for that purpose.  If

1-21     the proposed district has fewer than 100 registered voters residing

1-22     within its boundaries, the district may levy a sales and use tax

1-23     for the benefit of the district only if authorized by a majority

1-24     of the qualified voters residing within the entire county

 2-1     commissioner precinct in which the district is located.  The sales

 2-2     and use tax, if adopted, does not count toward the limitation

 2-3     imposed by Chapter 323 on any sales and use tax that has been

 2-4     levied by the county.

 2-5           SECTION 3.  This Act applies only to a county development

 2-6     district created on or after the effective date of this Act.  A

 2-7     county development district created before the effective date of

 2-8     this Act is governed by the law applicable to the district

 2-9     immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is

2-10     continued in effect for that purpose.

2-11           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-17     passage, and it is so enacted.