1-1     By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 918
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; April 9, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0;
 1-6     April 9, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 918                    By:  Nixon
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to municipalities eligible to create certain development
1-11     corporations.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (1), Subsection (a), Section 4B,
1-14     Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas
1-15     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-16                 (1)  "Eligible city" means a city:
1-17                       (A)  that is located in a county with a
1-18     population of 750,000 or more, according to the most recent federal
1-19     decennial census and in which the combined rate of all sales and
1-20     use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other political
1-21     subdivisions of the state having territory in the city does not
1-22     exceed 8.25 [7.25] percent on the date of any election held under
1-23     or made applicable to this section;
1-24                       (B)  that has a population of 400,000 or more,
1-25     according to the most recent federal decennial census, and that is
1-26     located in more than one county, and in which the combined rate of
1-27     all sales and use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other
1-28     political subdivisions of the state having territory in the city,
1-29     including taxes under this section, does not exceed 8.25 percent;
1-30                       (C)  that is located in a county with a
1-31     population of more than 1,100,000 according to the most recent
1-32     federal decennial census, in which there are more than 20 [29]
1-33     incorporated municipalities according to the most recent federal
1-34     decennial census, and in which the combined rate of all sales and
1-35     use taxes imposed by the city, the state, and other political
1-36     subdivisions of the state having territory in the city does not
1-37     exceed 8.25 [7.75] percent on the date of any election held under
1-38     or made applicable to this section; or
1-39                       (D)  to which Section 4A of this Act applies.
1-40                       [(E)  Paragraph (C) of this subdivision expires
1-41     September 1, 1999.]
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