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78R103 SMH-D

By:  Wilson                                                     H.J.R. No. 30 



A JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the creation of 
conservation and reclamation districts to promote, encourage, and 
maintain employment, commerce, economic development, and the 
public welfare in certain commercial areas and authorizing the 
legislature to exempt residential property from ad valorem taxation 
by those districts.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                       
	SECTION 1.  Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is 
amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
	(g)  In addition to creating or authorizing the creation of 
conservation and reclamation districts to accomplish the purposes 
of Subsection (a) of this section, the Legislature by special law 
may create, or by general law may authorize the creation of,  
conservation and reclamation districts under this section to 
accomplish the purposes of promoting, encouraging, and maintaining 
employment, commerce, economic development, and the public welfare 
in the predominantly commercial areas of municipalities and 
metropolitan regions of this state.  The Legislature by special or 
general law may exempt residential property located within the 
territory of a conservation and reclamation district authorized by 
this subsection from taxation by the district.
	SECTION 2.  The following temporary provision is added to 
the Texas Constitution:
	TEMPORARY PROVISION.  (a)  Chapters 375 and 376, Local 
Government Code, as those chapters existed on January 1, 2003, are 
validated.
	(b)  The creation of any district under Chapter 375, Local 
Government Code, before January 1, 2003, and of any district 
described by Chapter 376, Local Government Code, as that chapter 
existed on January 1, 2003, and all resolutions, orders, and other 
acts or attempted acts of the board of directors of each district 
are validated in all respects.  The creation of any district and all 
resolutions, orders, and other acts or attempted acts of the board 
of directors of each district are valid as though they originally 
had been legally authorized or accomplished.
	(c)  This section expires January 1, 2005.                              
	SECTION 3.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be 
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2003.  
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the 
proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the 
creation of conservation and reclamation districts to promote, 
encourage, and maintain employment, commerce, economic 
development, and the public welfare in the commercial areas of 
municipalities and metropolitan regions of this state and 
authorizing the legislature to exempt residential property from ad 
valorem taxation by districts created for those purposes."