Amend CSHB 3390 (Senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  (a) Section 311.005(a), Tax Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  To be designated as a reinvestment zone, an area must:

(1)  substantially arrest or impair the sound growth of the municipality or county designating the zone, retard the provision of housing accommodations, or constitute an economic or social liability and be a menace to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare in its present condition and use because of the presence of:

(A)  a substantial number of substandard, slum, deteriorated, or deteriorating structures;

(B)  the predominance of defective or inadequate sidewalk or street layout;

(C)  faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness;

(D)  unsanitary or unsafe conditions;

(E)  the deterioration of site or other improvements;

(F)  tax or special assessment delinquency exceeding the fair value of the land;

(G)  defective or unusual conditions of title;

(H)  conditions that endanger life or property by fire or other cause; or

(I)  structures, other than single-family residential structures, less than 10 percent of the square footage of which has been used for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes during the preceding 12 years, if the municipality has a population of 100,000 or more;

(2)  be predominantly open or undeveloped and, because of obsolete platting, deterioration of structures or site improvements, or other factors, substantially impair or arrest the sound growth of the municipality or county;

(3)  be in a federally assisted new community located in the municipality or county or in an area immediately adjacent to a federally assisted new community; [or]

(4)  be an area described in a petition requesting that the area be designated as a reinvestment zone, if the petition is submitted to the governing body of the municipality or county by the owners of property constituting at least 50 percent of the appraised value of the property in the area according to the most recent certified appraisal roll for the county in which the area is located; or

(B)  a county with a population of more than 660,000 and less than 690,000 that borders a county with a population of two million or more.

(b)  This section takes effect immediately if this Act 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 section takes effect September 1, 2013.