By Harris                                       S.B. No. 1068

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the sharing of tax revenue generated in certain

 1-3     airports.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 22, Transportation Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 22.089 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 22.089.  SHARING OF TAX REVENUE.  (a)  This section

 1-8     applies only to an airport:

 1-9                 (1)  owned and maintained by a joint board for which

1-10     the constituent agencies are two populous home-rule municipalities;

1-11     and

1-12                 (2)  located partly within the municipal boundaries of

1-13     three non-proprietor host municipalities.

1-14           (b)  The joint board, either or both populous home-rule

1-15     municipalities, and one or more nonproprietor host municipalities

1-16     may by contract agree to share tax revenues generated in the

1-17     airport.

1-18           (c)  In this section, "nonproprietor host municipality" means

1-19     a home-rule municipality, other than a populous home-rule

1-20     municipality that is a constituent agency of a joint board of an

1-21     airport described by Subsection (a), within the municipal

1-22     boundaries of which an airport is located.

1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

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

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.