Bill Text: TX HB1966 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a project that may be undertaken by certain development corporations in connection with infrastructure improvements necessary for municipal area development and revitalization.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1966 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1966-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1966 | ||
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| relating to a project that may be undertaken by certain development | ||
| corporations in connection with infrastructure improvements | ||
| necessary for municipal area development and revitalization. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 501, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 501.108 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 501.108. INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS BY | ||
| CORPORATIONS AUTHORIZED BY CERTAIN COASTAL MUNICIPALITIES. (a) | ||
| This section applies only to a corporation the creation of which was | ||
| authorized by a municipality that: | ||
| (1) has a population of 10,000 or more; | ||
| (2) is located in a county bordering the Gulf of Mexico | ||
| or the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; and | ||
| (3) has, or is included in a metropolitan statistical | ||
| area of this state that has, an unemployment rate that averaged at | ||
| least two percent above the state average for the most recent two | ||
| consecutive years for which statistics are available. | ||
| (b) For a corporation to which this section applies, | ||
| "project" includes expenditures found by the board of directors to | ||
| be required or suitable for infrastructure improvements necessary | ||
| to develop and revitalize areas in the corporation's authorizing | ||
| municipality, including: | ||
| (1) streets and roads, rail spurs, water and sewer | ||
| utilities, electric utilities, gas utilities, drainage, site | ||
| improvements, and related improvements; | ||
| (2) telecommunications, data, or Internet | ||
| improvements; or | ||
| (3) facilities designed to remediate, mitigate, or | ||
| control erosion, including coastal erosion along the Gulf of Mexico | ||
| or the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. | ||
| (c) This section expires September 1, 2017. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1966 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1966 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
