By Nelson S.B. No. 1425 75R7084 DAK-D 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.