By: Wentworth S.B. No. 918
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to municipalities eligible to create certain development
1-2 corporations.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subdivision (1), Subsection (a), Section 4B,
1-5 Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas
1-6 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (1) "Eligible city" means a city:
1-8 (A) that is not covered by Paragraph (C) of this
1-9 subdivision and is located in a county with a population of 750,000
1-10 or more, according to the most recent federal decennial census and
1-11 in which the combined rate of all sales and use taxes imposed by
1-12 the city, the state, and other political subdivisions of the state
1-13 having territory in the city does not exceed 8.25 [7.25] percent on
1-14 the date of any election held under or made applicable to this
1-15 section;
1-16 (B) that has a population of 400,000 or more,
1-17 according to the most recent federal decennial census, and that is
1-18 located in more than one county, and in which the combined rate of
1-19 all sales and use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other
1-20 political subdivisions of the state having territory in the city,
1-21 including taxes under this section, does not exceed 8.25 percent;
1-22 (C) that is located in a county with a
1-23 population of more than 1,100,000 according to the most recent
1-24 federal decennial census, in which there are more than 29
2-1 incorporated municipalities according to the most recent federal
2-2 decennial census, and in which the combined rate of all sales and
2-3 use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other political
2-4 subdivisions of the state having territory in the city does not
2-5 exceed 7.75 percent on the date of any election held under or made
2-6 applicable to this section; or
2-7 (D) to which Section 4A of this Act applies.
2-8 [(E) Paragraph (C) of this subdivision expires
2-9 September 1, 1999.]
2-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.