Bill Text: TX HB1040 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the validation of the creation of, and certain acts related to, a venue project, and the dissolution of certain venue districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1040 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1040-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the validation of the creation of, and certain acts related to, a venue project, and the dissolution of certain venue districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1040 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1040-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) | H.B. No. 1040 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2011; | ||
| April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
| Economic Development; May 13, 2011, reported adversely, with | ||
| favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, | ||
| Nays 0; May 13, 2011, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1040 | By: Jackson | |
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| relating to the validation of the creation of, and certain acts | ||
| related to, a venue project, and the dissolution of certain venue | ||
| districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. (a) The legislature validates and confirms: | ||
| (1) the creation of, and election on, a venue project | ||
| to finance the restoration and renovation of a venue as of the date | ||
| of an election held before the effective date of this Act at which | ||
| the voters of a municipality approved the creation of the venue | ||
| project and the levy of a two percent increase in the local hotel | ||
| occupancy tax; and | ||
| (2) the levy and collection of a two percent increase | ||
| in the local hotel occupancy tax for a venue project that occurred | ||
| before the effective date of this Act. | ||
| (b) This section does not apply to any matter that on the | ||
| effective date of this Act: | ||
| (1) is involved in litigation if the litigation | ||
| ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final court | ||
| judgment; or | ||
| (2) has been held invalid by a final court judgment. | ||
| (c) This Act does not validate any governmental act or | ||
| proceeding that, under the law in effect at the time the act or | ||
| proceeding occurred, would constitute a criminal offense | ||
| punishable as a misdemeanor or felony. | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 335, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter G to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER G. DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICTS IN LESS POPULOUS COUNTIES | ||
| Sec. 335.151. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies only | ||
| to a district wholly located in a county with a population of less | ||
| than 15,000. | ||
| Sec. 335.152. DISSOLUTION. The governing body of each | ||
| political subdivision that created a district may dissolve the | ||
| district by adopting a concurrent order. | ||
| Sec. 335.153. ASSETS AND LIABILITIES. (a) The assets and | ||
| liabilities of a district dissolved under this subchapter shall be | ||
| transferred to the county in which the district is located. | ||
| (b) After payment of district liabilities, the county shall | ||
| use the district assets that remain for an approved venue project of | ||
| the county. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2011. | ||
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