H.B. No. 303
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to entities eligible to authorize the creation of
  spaceport development corporations and to the powers of those
  corporations.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 507.003, Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 507.003.  AUTHORITY TO CREATE CORPORATION BY ELIGIBLE
  ENTITIES. The following entities are eligible to authorize the
  creation under this subtitle of a spaceport development
  corporation:
               (1)  a county; [or]
               (2)  a municipality with a population of two million or
  more; or
               (3)  a combination of one or more municipalities and
  one or more counties.
         SECTION 2.  Section 507.051, Local Government Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to
  read as follows:
         (b)  If a single county authorizes the creation of a
  spaceport development corporation, the commissioners court of the
  county shall appoint the directors of the corporation. If a single
  municipality authorizes the creation of a spaceport development
  corporation under Section 507.003(2), the governing body of the
  municipality shall appoint the directors of the corporation.
         (b-1)  If more than one political subdivision authorizes the
  creation of a spaceport development corporation, the governing
  bodies of the political subdivisions shall appoint the directors
  through written agreement between the governing bodies.
         SECTION 3.  Section 507.103, Local Government Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to
  read as follows:
         (a)  This section does not apply to a spaceport development
  corporation whose authorizing entity is a single municipality with
  a population of two million or more.
         (a-1)  A spaceport development corporation may exercise the
  power of eminent domain to acquire property for a spaceport,
  including the power to:
               (1)  acquire fee title in land condemned;
               (2)  relocate or modify a railroad, utility line,
  pipeline, or other facility that may interfere with a spaceport; or
               (3)  impose a reasonable restriction on using the
  surface of the property for mineral development if the corporation
  does not own the mineral rights.
         SECTION 4.  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, 2019.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 303 was passed by the House on April
  2, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 1, 1 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 303 on May 13, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1
  present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 303 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 9, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 1.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor