1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to venue projects that may be authorized and financed by a
1-3 municipality.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 334.001(4), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (4) "Venue" means:
1-8 (A) an arena, coliseum, stadium, or other type
1-9 of area or facility:
1-10 (i) that is used or is planned for use for
1-11 one or more professional or amateur sports events, community
1-12 events, or other sports events, including rodeos, livestock shows,
1-13 agricultural expositions, promotional events, and other civic or
1-14 charitable events; and
1-15 (ii) for which a fee for admission to the
1-16 events is charged or is planned to be charged;
1-17 (B) a convention center facility or related
1-18 improvement such as a convention center, civic center, civic center
1-19 building, civic center hotel, auditorium, theater, opera house,
1-20 music hall, exhibition hall, rehearsal hall, park, zoological park,
1-21 museum, aquarium, or plaza located in the vicinity of a convention
1-22 center or facility owned by a municipality or a county;
1-23 (C) a tourist development area along an inland
1-24 waterway; [and]
2-1 (D) a municipal parks and recreation system, or
2-2 improvements or additions to a parks and recreation system, or an
2-3 area or facility that is part of a municipal parks and recreation
2-4 system; and
2-5 (E) [(D)] any other economic development project
2-6 authorized by other law.
2-7 SECTION 2. Section 334.024, Local Government Code, is
2-8 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
2-9 (f) If the venue project is authorized by Section
2-10 334.001(4)(D) and the venue project does not include improvements
2-11 and/or additions to all parks and/or recreation facilities of the
2-12 municipality, the description of the venue project in the
2-13 proposition, if for improvements or additions to an existing park
2-14 or recreation facility, shall identify by name or location each
2-15 park or recreation facility and, if for acquisition and/or
2-16 improvement of a new park or recreation facility, the general
2-17 location within the municipality of the new park, recreational
2-18 system, or facility.
2-19 SECTION 3. Subchapter E, Chapter 334, Local Government Code,
2-20 is amended by adding Section 334.1015 to read as follows:
2-21 Sec. 334.1015. APPLICATION. This subchapter does not apply
2-22 to the financing of a venue project that is an area or facility
2-23 that is part of a municipal parks and recreation system.
2-24 SECTION 4. Subchapter H, Chapter 334, Local Government Code,
2-25 is amended by adding Section 334.2515 to read as follows:
2-26 Sec. 334.2515. APPLICATION. This subchapter does not apply
2-27 to the financing of a venue project that is an area or facility
3-1 that is part of a municipal parks and recreation system.
3-2 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-8 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1380 was passed by the House on March
25, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 1380 on May 19, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0,
1 present, not voting.
_______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1380 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 17, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor