Bill Text: TX HB2313 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain tax revenue for certain qualified projects.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB2313 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2313-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 2313

AN ACT
relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain
tax revenue for certain qualified projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 351.1015(a)(4), Tax Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(4) "Project financing zone" means an area within a
municipality:
(A) that the municipality by ordinance or by
agreement under Chapter 380, Local Government Code, designates as a
project financing zone;
(B) the boundaries of which are:
(i) within a three-mile radius of the
center of a qualified project; or
(ii) if designated by a municipality
described by Section 351.001(7)(B) on or before December 31, 2024,
a continuous geographic area the total area of which is less than or
equal to the maximum area allowed under Subparagraph (i) that
contains the qualified project;
(C) the designation of which specifies:
(i) for a zone the boundaries of which are
prescribed by Paragraph (B)(i), the longitude and latitude of the
center of the qualified project; or
(ii) for a zone the boundaries of which are
prescribed by Paragraph (B)(ii), the exact boundaries of the zone;
and
(D) the designation of which expires not later
than the 30th anniversary of the date of designation.
SECTION 2. Section 351.1015(b), Tax Code, as amended by
Chapters 644 (H.B. 4559), 779 (H.B. 5012), 927 (S.B. 2220), and 1110
(S.B. 1057), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023,
is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(b) This section applies only to a qualified project located
in:
(1) a municipality with a population of at least
700,000 but less than 950,000 according to the most recent federal
decennial census; [or]
(2) a municipality that contains more than 70 percent
of the population of a county with a population of 1.5 million or
more;
(3) [(2)] a municipality described by Section
351.001(7)(B);
(4) [or
[(3)] a municipality described by Section
351.152(61);
(5) [(2)] a municipality with a population of at least
two million; or
(6) a municipality described by Section 351.152(14)
with a population of more than 250,000.
SECTION 3. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2313 was passed by the House on May
14, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 100, Nays 4, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2313 on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 82, Nays 55,
1 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2313 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 26, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 25, Nays
6.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor