Bill Text: TX HB3010 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to authorizing and financing certain sports and community venue projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3010 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB3010-Comm_Sub.html
  85R19533 TJB-D
 
  By: Lucio III H.B. No. 3010
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3010:
 
  By:  Alvarado C.S.H.B. No. 3010
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to authorizing and financing certain sports and community
  venue projects.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 334.001, Local Government Code, is
  amended by amending Subdivisions (1) and (4) and adding Subdivision
  (1-a) to read as follows:
               (1)  "Active transportation" means transportation that
  is wholly or primarily powered by human energy. The term includes
  walking, running, and bicycling.
               (1-a)  "Approved venue project" means a sports and
  community venue project that has been approved under this chapter
  by the voters of a municipality or county.
               (4)  "Venue" means:
                     (A)  an arena, coliseum, stadium, or other type of
  area or facility:
                           (i)  that is used or is planned for use for
  one or more professional or amateur sports events, community
  events, or other sports events, including rodeos, livestock shows,
  agricultural expositions, promotional events, and other civic or
  charitable events; and
                           (ii)  for which a fee for admission to the
  events is charged or is planned to be charged;
                     (B)  a convention center, convention center
  facility as defined by Section 351.001(2) or 352.001(2), Tax Code,
  or related improvement such as a civic center hotel, theater, opera
  house, music hall, rehearsal hall, park, zoological park, museum,
  aquarium, or plaza located in the vicinity of a convention center or
  facility owned by a municipality or a county;
                     (C)  a tourist development area [along an inland
  waterway];
                     (D)  a municipal parks and recreation system, or
  improvements or additions to a parks and recreation system, or an
  area or facility, including an area or facility for active
  transportation use, that is part of a municipal parks and
  recreation system;
                     (E)  a project authorized by Section 4A or 4B,
  Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas
  Civil Statutes), as that Act existed on September 1, 1997; [and]
                     (F)  a watershed protection and preservation
  project; a recharge, recharge area, or recharge feature protection
  project;  a conservation easement;  or an open-space preservation
  program intended to protect water; and
                     (G)  an airport facility located in a municipality
  located on the international border.
         SECTION 2.  Section 334.1015, Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 334.1015.  APPLICATION. (a) Except as provided by
  Subsection (b), this [This] subchapter does not apply to the
  financing of a venue project that is an area or facility that is
  part of a municipal parks and recreation system.
         (b)  A municipality located on the international border may
  finance a venue project described by Section 334.001(4)(D) with the
  revenue from a tax imposed under this subchapter.
         SECTION 3.  Section 334.2515, Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 334.2515.  APPLICATION. Except as provided by Section
  334.2516, this subchapter does not apply to the financing of a venue
  project that is:
               (1)  an area described by Section 334.001(4)(C);
               (2)  an area or facility that is part of a municipal
  parks and recreation system as described by Section 334.001(4)(D);
  [or]
               (3) [(2)]  a project described by Section
  334.001(4)(E), except for a project [projects] described by [in]
  Section 334.001(4)(A); or
               (4)  a facility described by Section 334.001(4)(G).
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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