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79R51 CLG-D


By:  Campbell                                                     H.B. No. 568



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a project authorized to be undertaken by certain 
development corporations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 4B(a)(2), Development Corporation Act of  
1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended  
to read as follows:
		(2)  "Project" means land, buildings, equipment, 
facilities, expenditures, and improvements included in the 
definition of that term under Section 2 of this Act, and includes 
job training as provided by Section 38 of this Act.  For purposes of 
this section, the term includes recycling facilities, and land, 
buildings, equipment, facilities, and improvements found by the 
board of directors to:
			(A)  be required or suitable for use for 
professional and amateur (including children's) sports, athletic, 
entertainment, tourist, convention, and public park purposes and 
events, including stadiums, ball parks, auditoriums, 
amphitheaters, concert halls, parks and park facilities, open space 
improvements, museums, exhibition facilities, and related store, 
restaurant, concession, and automobile parking facilities, related 
area transportation facilities, and related roads, streets, and 
water and sewer facilities, and other related improvements that 
enhance any of those items;
			(B)  promote or develop new or expanded business 
enterprises that create or retain primary jobs, including a project 
to provide public safety facilities, streets and roads, drainage 
and related improvements, demolition of existing structures, 
general municipally owned improvements, as well as any improvements 
or facilities that are related to any of those projects and any 
other project that the board in its discretion determines promotes 
or develops new or expanded business enterprises that create or 
retain primary jobs;
			(C)  be required or suitable for the promotion of 
development and expansion of affordable housing, as defined by 42 
U.S.C. Section 12745;
			(D)  be required or suitable for the development 
or improvement of water supply facilities, including dams, 
transmission lines, well field developments, and other water supply 
alternatives; [or]
			(E)  be required or suitable for the development 
and institution of water conservation programs, including 
incentives to install water-saving plumbing fixtures, educational 
programs, brush control programs, and programs to replace 
malfunctioning or leaking water lines and other water facilities; 
or
			(F)  be required or suitable for the development 
or expansion of educational facilities at an institution of higher 
education.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.