BILL ANALYSIS

 

 

Senate Research Center	H.B. 1417
86R8411 SMT-D	By: Clardy (Nichols)
	Intergovernmental Relations
	5/3/2019
	Engrossed

 

 

 

AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

 

Tourism public improvement districts (TPIDs) have been an excellent success for the municipalities that have adopted them. Municipalities such as the City of Nacogdoches would also benefit from a tourism public improvement district. H.B. 1417 seeks to authorize certain municipalities to undertake authorized improvements and projects that confer a special benefit on areas that share a common characteristic.

 

H.B. 1417 amends current law relating to a common characteristic or use project in a public improvement district in certain municipalities.

 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

 

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

 

SECTION 1. Amends Section 372.0035(a), Local Government Code, as follows:

 

(a) Provides that this section (Common Characteristics or Use For Projects in Certain Municipalities) applies only to:

 

(1) a municipality that:

 

(A)-(B) makes nonsubstantive changes to these paragraphs; or

 

(C) has a population of more than 20,000 and is wholly located in a county with a population of more than 55,000 and less than 65,000; and

 

(2) a public improvement district established under this subchapter (Public Improvement Districts) and solely composed of territory in which the only businesses are:

 

(A) makes no changes to this paragraph; and

 

(B) hotels with 75 or more rooms ordinarily used for sleeping, if the district is established by a municipality described by Subdivision (1)(B) or (C), rather than by Subdivision (1)(B).

 

SECTION 2. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2019. �