Bill Text: TX HB3077 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to impose certain taxes to finance certain venue projects.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Referred to Ways & Means [HB3077 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB3077-Introduced.html

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85R2931 DMS-F
By: Rodriguez of Travis H.B. No. 3077

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a municipality or county to impose
certain taxes to finance certain venue projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 334.001(4), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(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 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.
SECTION 2. Section 334.024(f), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(f) If the venue project is authorized by Section
334.001(4)(D) and the venue project does not include improvements
and/or additions to all parks and/or recreation facilities of the
municipality or county, the description of the venue project in the
proposition, if for improvements or additions to an existing park
or recreation facility, shall identify by name or location each
park or recreation facility and, if for acquisition and/or
improvement of a new park or recreation facility, the general
location within the municipality or county of the new park,
recreational system, or facility.
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 or facility that is part of a municipal
parks and recreation system as described by Section 334.001(4)(D);
or
[(2)] a project described by Section 334.001(4)(E),
except for projects described in Section 334.001(4)(A).
SECTION 4. Sections 334.008, 334.1015, and 334.2517, Local
Government Code, are repealed.
SECTION 5. 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, 2017.