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.