Bill Text: TX HB1040 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.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-Introduced.html
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By: Gallego | H.B. No. 1040 |
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relating to the validation of the creation of, and certain acts | ||
related to, a venue project. | ||
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. 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. |