Bill Text: TX HB1815 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to venue projects in certain counties; providing authority to adopt a tax.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-08 - No action taken in committee [HB1815 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1815-Introduced.html

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83R6426 NC-D
By: Lucio III H.B. No. 1815

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to venue projects in certain counties; providing authority
to adopt a tax.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 334, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 334.0021 to read as follows:
Sec. 334.0021. APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN COUNTIES. This
chapter applies to a county with a population of more than 300,000
and less than 700,000 and located on an international border.
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, 2013.