By Coleman H.B. No. 790
77R3589 ATP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the financing of health care facilities under the
1-3 sports and community venue statute.
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;
2-1 (D) a municipal parks and recreation system, or
2-2 improvements or additions to a parks and recreation system, or an
2-3 area or facility that is part of a municipal parks and recreation
2-4 system; [and]
2-5 (E) a health care facility, as that term is
2-6 defined by Section 104.002, Health and Safety Code; and
2-7 (F) any other economic development project
2-8 authorized by other law.
2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-10 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-11 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-12 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-13 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.