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Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 to CSSB 22 by adding the
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 351.001(2), Tax Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(2) "Convention center facilities" or "convention
center complex" means facilities that are primarily used to host
conventions and meetings. The term means civic centers, civic
center buildings, auditoriums, exhibition halls, and coliseums
that are owned by the municipality or other governmental entity or
that are managed in whole or part by the municipality. In a
municipality with a population of 1.5 million or more, "convention
center facilities" or "convention center complex" means civic
centers, civic center buildings, auditoriums, exhibition halls,
and coliseums that are owned by the municipality or other
governmental entity or that are managed in part by the
municipality, hotels owned by the municipality or a nonprofit
municipally sponsored local government corporation created under
Chapter 431, Transportation Code, within 1,000 feet of a convention
center owned by the municipality, or a historic hotel owned by the
municipality or a nonprofit municipally sponsored local government
corporation created under Chapter 431, Transportation Code, within
one mile of a convention center owned by the municipality. The term
includes parking areas or facilities that are for the parking or
storage of conveyances and that are located at or in the vicinity of
other convention center facilities. The term also includes a hotel
owned by or located on land that is owned by an eligible central
municipality or by a nonprofit corporation acting on behalf of an
eligible central municipality and that is located within 1,000 feet
of a convention center facility owned by the municipality. In a
municipality that has a population of less than 114,000 and that
contains a portion of the Bosque River, the terms include a hotel
owned by the municipality or by a nonprofit corporation acting on
behalf of the municipality and that is located within 1,500 feet of
a convention center facility owned by the municipality.
SECTION ____. Section 351.102, Tax Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) Subsection (c) applies only to a project that was open
for initial occupancy on or before January 1, 2003.
SECTION ____. Section 1504.001(a), Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A municipality may establish, acquire, lease as lessee
or lessor, construct, improve, enlarge, equip, repair, operate, or
maintain a facility such as:
(1) a civic center, auditorium, opera house, music
hall, exhibition hall, coliseum, museum, library, or other
municipal building;
(2) a golf course, tennis court, or other similar
recreational facility;
(3) a hotel owned by a municipality or a nonprofit
municipally sponsored local government corporation created under
Chapter 431, Transportation Code, that is located:
(A) not more than 1,000 feet from a convention
center owned by a municipality with a population of 1,500,000 or
more; or
(B) within 1,500 feet of a convention center
facility owned by a municipality that has a population of less than
114,000 and that contains a portion of the Bosque River;
(4) a historic hotel owned by a municipality or a
nonprofit municipally sponsored local government corporation
created under Chapter 431, Transportation Code, that is located not
more than one mile from a convention center owned by a municipality
with a population of 1,500,000 or more; or
(5) a parking facility at or in the immediate vicinity
of a facility described by Subdivisions (1)-(4) for use in
connection with that facility for off-street parking or storage of
motor vehicles or other conveyances.