By West                                               S.B. No. 1036
         76R4270 SMJ-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to venue projects that may be authorized by a
 1-3     municipality.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 334.001(4), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (4)  "Venue" means:
 1-8                       (A)  an arena, coliseum, stadium, or other type
 1-9     of area or facility:
1-10                             (i)  that is used or is planned for use for
1-11     one or more professional or amateur sports events, community
1-12     events, or other sports events, including rodeos, livestock shows,
1-13     agricultural expositions, promotional events, and other civic or
1-14     charitable events; and
1-15                             (ii)  for which a fee for admission to the
1-16     events is charged or is planned to be charged;
1-17                       (B)  a convention center facility or related
1-18     improvement such as a convention center, civic center, civic center
1-19     building, civic center hotel, auditorium, theater, opera house,
1-20     music hall, exhibition hall, rehearsal hall, park, zoological park,
1-21     museum, aquarium, or plaza located in the vicinity of a convention
1-22     center or facility owned by a municipality or a county;
1-23                       (C)  a tourist development area along an inland
1-24     waterway; [and]
 2-1                       (D)  an area or facility that is part of a
 2-2     municipal parks and recreation system; and
 2-3                       (E) [(D)]  any other economic development project
 2-4     authorized by other law.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.