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.