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.