H.B. No. 1253




AN ACT

relating to projects that may be undertaken by certain development 
corporations for career centers.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 2(11), Development Corporation Act of 
1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to 
read as follows:
		(11) [(A)]  "Project" shall mean:                     
			(A)  the land, buildings, equipment, facilities, 
expenditures, targeted infrastructure, and improvements (one or 
more) that are for the creation or retention of primary jobs and 
that are found by the board of directors to be required or suitable 
for the development, retention, or expansion of manufacturing and 
industrial facilities, research and development facilities, 
transportation facilities (including but not limited to airports, 
ports, mass commuting facilities, and parking facilities), sewage 
or solid waste disposal facilities, recycling facilities, air or 
water pollution control facilities, facilities for the furnishing 
of water to the general public, distribution centers, small 
warehouse facilities capable of serving as decentralized storage 
and distribution centers, primary job training facilities for use 
by institutions of higher education, and regional or national 
corporate headquarters facilities;[.]
			(B)  ["Project" also includes] job training 
required or suitable for the promotion of development and expansion 
of business enterprises and other enterprises described by this 
Act, as provided by Section 38 of this Act;[.]
			(C)  ["Project" also includes] expenditures found 
by the board of directors to be required or suitable for 
infrastructure necessary to promote or develop new or expanded 
business enterprises limited to streets and roads, rail spurs, 
water and electric utilities, gas utilities, drainage and related 
improvements, and telecommunications and Internet improvements; or
			(D)  land, buildings, equipment, facilities, 
improvements, and expenditures found by the board of directors to 
be required or suitable for use for a career center, if the area to 
be benefited by the career center is not located in the taxing 
jurisdiction of a junior college district.
	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.




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1253 was passed by the House on April 
21, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not 
voting.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 1253 was passed by the Senate on May 
25, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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