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By: Gallego H.B. No. 3397
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a county to develop a parks and
recreation system under the law governing sports and community
venue projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 334.001(4), Local Government Code, as
amended by House Bill No. 1150, Acts of the 78th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2003, is amended to read as follows:
(4) "Venue" means:
(A) an arena, coliseum, stadium, or other type of
area or facility:
(i) that is used or is planned for use for
one or more professional or amateur sports events, community
events, or other sports events, including rodeos, livestock shows,
agricultural expositions, promotional events, and other civic or
charitable events; and
(ii) for which a fee for admission to the
events is charged or is planned to be charged;
(B) a convention center facility or related
improvement such as a convention center, civic center, civic center
building, civic center hotel, auditorium, theater, opera house,
music hall, exhibition hall, rehearsal hall, park, zoological park,
museum, aquarium, or plaza located in the vicinity of a convention
center or facility owned by a municipality or a county;
(C) a tourist development area along an inland
waterway;
(D) a municipal or county parks and recreation
system, or improvements or additions to a parks and recreation
system, or an area or facility that is part of a municipal or county
parks and recreation system;
(E) a project authorized by Section 4A or 4B,
Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas
Civil Statutes), as that Act existed on September 1, 1997; and
(F) a watershed protection and preservation
project; a recharge, recharge area, or recharge feature protection
project; a conservation easement; or an open-space preservation
program intended to protect water.
SECTION 2. Section 334.024(f), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(f) If the venue project is authorized by Section
334.001(4)(D) and the venue project does not include improvements
and/or additions to all parks and/or recreation facilities of the
municipality or county, the description of the venue project in the
proposition, if for improvements or additions to an existing park
or recreation facility, shall identify by name or location each
park or recreation facility and, if for acquisition and/or
improvement of a new park or recreation facility, the general
location within the municipality or county of the new park,
recreational system, or facility.
SECTION 3. Section 334.1015, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 334.1015. APPLICATION. This subchapter does not apply
to the financing of a venue project that is an area or facility that
is part of a municipal or county parks and recreation system.
SECTION 4. (a) Section 334.2515, Local Government Code, as
amended by Chapters 660 and 1044, Acts of the 77th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2001, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
Sec. 334.2515. APPLICATION. Except as provided by Section
334.2516, this subchapter does not apply to the financing of a venue
project that is:
(1) an area or facility that is part of a municipal or
county parks and recreation system as described by Section
334.001(4)(D); or
(2) a project described by Section 334.001(4)(E),
except for projects described in Section 334.001(4)(A).
(b) Section 334.2515, Local Government Code, as reenacted
by Section 12.006, House Bill No. 3507, Acts of the 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is repealed.
SECTION 5. 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 November 1, 2003.