84R10038 ATP-D
 
  By: Smithee H.B. No. 3838
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the procedures required for a Type A economic
  development corporation to make certain expenditures.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 504, Local Government
  Code, is amended by adding Section 504.108 to read as follows:
         Sec. 504.108.  PROCEDURES FOR CERTAIN LARGE EXPENDITURES.
  (a) A Type A corporation may not make an expenditure in the amount
  of $50,000 or more unless:
               (1)  the corporation first publishes notice of the
  expenditure on the publicly accessible website of the authorizing
  municipality or in a newspaper of general circulation in the
  authorizing municipality; and
               (2)  the authorizing municipality approves the
  expenditure, not earlier than the seventh day after the date notice
  is published under Subdivision (1).
         (b)  The notice under Subsection (a) must state:
               (1)  each business entity or other person who will
  receive money from the corporation for the expenditure; and 
               (2)  each investor or owner with an ownership interest
  of five percent or more in a business entity described by
  Subdivision (1).
         SECTION 2.  Section 504.108, Local Government Code, as added
  by this Act, applies only to an expenditure made or obligated to be
  made on or after the effective date of this Act. An expenditure
  that is made or obligated to be made before the effective date of
  this Act is governed by the law in effect when the corporation made
  or first became obligated to make the expenditure, and the former
  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.