1-1 By: Allen (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 1380
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
1-3 March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 10, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Cain
1-7 Amend HB 1380 as follows:
1-8 On page 1, line 52, insert the following after "(D)" and
1-9 before "an":
1-10 "a municipal parks and recreation system; or improvements or
1-11 additions to a parks and recreation system: or"
1-12 Between lines 55 and 56 on page 1 add a new Section 2 to be
1-13 and read as follows and renumber the subsequent Section's
1-14 accordingly
1-15 Section 2. Section 334.024, Local Government Code, is
1-16 amended by the addition of a new subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-17 (f) If the venue project is authorized by subsection (4)(D)
1-18 of Section 334.001 and the venue project does not include
1-19 improvements and or additions to all parks, and or recreation
1-20 facilities of the municipality the description of the venue project
1-21 in the proposition, if for improvements or additions to an existing
1-22 park, or recreation facility shall identify by name or location
1-23 each park or recreation facility and, if for acquisition and or
1-24 improvement of a new park or recreation facility, the general
1-25 location within the municipality of the new park, recreational
1-26 system or facility.
1-27 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-28 AN ACT
1-29 relating to venue projects that may be authorized and financed by a
1-30 municipality.
1-31 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-32 SECTION 1. Section 334.001(4), Local Government Code, is
1-33 amended to read as follows:
1-34 (4) "Venue" means:
1-35 (A) an arena, coliseum, stadium, or other type
1-36 of area or facility:
1-37 (i) that is used or is planned for use for
1-38 one or more professional or amateur sports events, community
1-39 events, or other sports events, including rodeos, livestock shows,
1-40 agricultural expositions, promotional events, and other civic or
1-41 charitable events; and
1-42 (ii) for which a fee for admission to the
1-43 events is charged or is planned to be charged;
1-44 (B) a convention center facility or related
1-45 improvement such as a convention center, civic center, civic center
1-46 building, civic center hotel, auditorium, theater, opera house,
1-47 music hall, exhibition hall, rehearsal hall, park, zoological park,
1-48 museum, aquarium, or plaza located in the vicinity of a convention
1-49 center or facility owned by a municipality or a county;
1-50 (C) a tourist development area along an inland
1-51 waterway; [and]
1-52 (D) an area or facility that is part of a
1-53 municipal parks and recreation system; and
1-54 (E) [(D)] any other economic development project
1-55 authorized by other law.
1-56 SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 334, Local Government Code,
1-57 is amended by adding Section 334.1015 to read as follows:
1-58 Sec. 334.1015. APPLICATION. This subchapter does not apply
1-59 to the financing of a venue project that is an area or facility
1-60 that is part of a municipal parks and recreation system.
1-61 SECTION 3. Subchapter H, Chapter 334, Local Government Code,
1-62 is amended by adding Section 334.2515 to read as follows:
1-63 Sec. 334.2515. APPLICATION. This subchapter does not apply
2-1 to the financing of a venue project that is an area or facility
2-2 that is part of a municipal parks and recreation system.
2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.
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