79R5894 ATP-D

By:  Ritter                                                       H.B. No. 1937



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the authority of certain counties to create county 
assistance districts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 387.002, Local Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 387.002.  APPLICABILITY.  This chapter applies only to 
a county that has a population of less than 45,000 if:
		(1)  [and] any portion of the county [which] is 
included in an authority governed by Chapter 451 or 452, 
Transportation Code; or
		(2)  the county does not contain any part of a 
municipality that, before the commissioners court of the county 
calls an election on the question of creating a district under 
Section 387.003, has:
			(A)  created a development corporation under 
Section 4A or 4B, Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 
5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); or
			(B)  imposed a sales and use tax that when 
combined with any other sales and use tax applicable in the 
municipality, exceeds two percent.
	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.