By Reyna of Bexar H.B. No. 3253
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to development corporations.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 4B(1), Development Corporation Act of
1-5 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (1) "Eligible city" means a city:
1-8 (A) that is located in a county with a
1-9 population of 750,000 or more, according to the most recent federal
1-10 decennial census and in which the combined rate of all sales and
1-11 use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other political
1-12 subdivisions of the state having territory in the city does not
1-13 exceed 8.25 [7.25] percent on the date of any election held under
1-14 or made applicable to this section;
1-15 (B) that has a population of 400,000 or more,
1-16 according to the most recent federal decennial census, and that is
1-17 located in more than one county, and in which the combined rate of
1-18 all sales and use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other
1-19 political subdivisions of the state having territory in the city,
1-20 including taxes under this section, does not exceed 8.25 percent;
1-21 (C) that is located in a county with a
2-1 population of more than 1,100,000 according to the most recent
2-2 federal decennial census, in which there are more than 29
2-3 incorporated municipalities according to the most recent federal
2-4 decennial census, and in which the combined rate of all sales and
2-5 use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other political
2-6 subdivisions of the state having territory in the city does not
2-7 exceed 7.75 percent on the date of any election held under or made
2-8 applicable to this section; or
2-9 (D) to which Section 4A of this Act applies.
2-10 (E) Paragraph (C) of this subdivision expires
2-11 September 1, 1999.
2-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.