By: Nelson S.B. No. 1425
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to confirmation elections for and costs relating to the
1-2 establishment of certain county development districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 312.610, Tax Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) After the hearing, if it is found that the petition
1-7 conforms to the requirements of Section 312.6055 and that the
1-8 creation of the district and the proposed project is feasible and
1-9 necessary and would serve the public purpose of attracting visitors
1-10 or [and] tourists to the county, the commissioners court may
1-11 [shall] so find and enter an order creating the district. The
1-12 order creating the district may specify the cost to the county of
1-13 publishing notice and conducting hearings for the creation of the
1-14 district together with the cost of conducting the confirmation and
1-15 sales and use tax election. The county may require the petitioner
1-16 to pay to the county the amounts specified in the order creating
1-17 the district at the time the order becomes final.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 312.617, Tax Code, is amended by adding
1-19 Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-20 (d) In the event 10 or fewer votes are cast in the
1-21 confirmation and sales and use tax election, within 90 days
1-22 following the entry of the order canvassing the election the
1-23 proceedings of the election, including voter affidavits as to
2-1 residency and qualification to vote, shall be submitted to the
2-2 attorney general.
2-3 SECTION 3. This Act applies only to a county development
2-4 district created on or after the effective date of this Act. A
2-5 county development district created before the effective date of
2-6 this Act is governed by the law applicable to the district
2-7 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
2-8 continued in effect for that purpose.
2-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.