85R2931 DMS-F
 
  By: Rodriguez of Travis H.B. No. 3077
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of a municipality or county to impose
  certain taxes to finance certain venue projects.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 334.001(4), Local Government Code, 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, 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 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.
         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 334.2515, 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 or facility that is part of a municipal
  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).
         SECTION 4.  Sections 334.008, 334.1015, and 334.2517, Local
  Government Code, are 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 September 1, 2017.