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.