1-1     By:  Ramsay (Senate Sponsor - Staples)                H.B. No. 2870
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2001;
 1-3     April 24, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 9, 2001, reported favorably, as
 1-5     amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 9, 2001, sent
 1-6     to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                              By:  Lindsay
 1-8           Amend H.B. No. 2870 (house engrossment) as follows:
 1-9           (1)  In Section 1 of the bill (page 1, line 37) strike
1-10     "Subsection (f)" and substitute "Subsections (f) and (g)".
1-11           (2)  In Section 1 of the bill, immediately following proposed
1-12     Subsection (f) (page 1, between lines 40 and 41), add a new
1-13     Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-14           (g)  The commissioners court may develop and administer a
1-15     program authorized by Subsection (b) for entering into a tax
1-16     abatement agreement with an owner or lessee of a property interest
1-17     subject to ad valorem taxation. The execution, duration, and other
1-18     terms of the agreement are governed, to the extent practicable, by
1-19     the provisions of Sections 312.204, 312.205, and 312.211, Tax Code,
1-20     as if the commissioners court were a governing body of a
1-21     municipality.
1-22           (3)  Add the following appropriately numbered section to the
1-23     bill to read as follows and renumber subsequent sections of the
1-24     bill appropriately:
1-25           SECTION ___.  An act or proceeding of the commissioners court
1-26     of a county that relates to a program described by Section
1-27     381.004(f) or (g), Local Government Code, as added by this Act, and
1-28     that occurs before the effective date of this Act is validated as
1-29     of the date the act or proceeding occurred.
1-30                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-31                                   AN ACT
1-32     relating to the authority of a commissioners court of a county to
1-33     develop and administer an economic development program for making
1-34     loans or grants of public money.
1-35           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-36           SECTION 1. Section 381.004, Local Government Code, is amended
1-37     by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-38           (f)  The commissioners court may develop and administer a
1-39     program authorized by Subsection (b) for making loans and grants of
1-40     public money and providing personnel and services of the county.
1-41           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-42     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-43     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-44     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-45     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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