Amend HB 2870 (house engrossment) as follows:
      (1)  In Section 1 of the bill (page 1, line 7) strike
"Subsection (f)" and substitute "Subsections (f) and (g)".
      (2)  In Section 1 of the bill, immediately following proposed
Subsection (f) (page 1, between lines 10 and 11), add a new
Subsection (g) to read as follows:
      (g)  The commissioners court may develop and administer a
program authorized by Subsection (b) for entering into a tax
abatement agreement with an owner or lessee of a property interest
subject to ad valorem taxation. The execution, duration, and other
terms of the agreement are governed, to the extent practicable, by
the provisions of Sections 312.204, 312.205, and 312.211, Tax Code,
as if the commissioners court were a governing body of a
municipality.
      (3)  Add the following appropriately numbered section to the
bill to read as follows and renumber subsequent sections of the
bill appropriately:
      SECTION _____.  An act or proceeding of the commissioners
court of a county that relates to a program described by Section
381.004(f) or (g), Local Government Code, as added by this Act, and
that occurs before the effective date of this Act is validated as
of the date the act or proceeding occurred.