85R19533 TJB-D

By: Lucio III H.B. No. 3010

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3010:

By: Alvarado C.S.H.B. No. 3010

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to authorizing and financing certain sports and community venue projects.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 334.001, Local Government Code, is amended by amending Subdivisions (1) and (4) and adding Subdivision (1-a) to read as follows:

(1) "Active transportation" means transportation that is wholly or primarily powered by human energy. The term includes walking, running, and bicycling.

(1-a) "Approved venue project" means a sports and community venue project that has been approved under this chapter by the voters of a municipality or county.

(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, convention center facility as defined by Section 351.001(2) or 352.001(2), Tax Code, or related improvement such as a civic center hotel, theater, opera house, music 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 parks and recreation system, or improvements or additions to a parks and recreation system, or an area or facility, including an area or facility for active transportation use, that is part of a municipal 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; and

(G) an airport facility located in a municipality located on the international border.

SECTION 2. Section 334.1015, Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 334.1015. APPLICATION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), this [This] subchapter does not apply to the financing of a venue project that is an area or facility that is part of a municipal parks and recreation system.

(b) A municipality located on the international border may finance a venue project described by Section 334.001(4)(D) with the revenue from a tax imposed under this subchapter.

SECTION 3. Section 334.2515, Local Government Code, is 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 described by Section 334.001(4)(C);

(2) an area or facility that is part of a municipal parks and recreation system as described by Section 334.001(4)(D); [or]

(3) [(2)] a project described by Section 334.001(4)(E), except for a project [projects] described by [in] Section 334.001(4)(A); or

(4) a facility described by Section 334.001(4)(G).

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.