Bill Text: TX HB3077 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to impose certain taxes to finance certain venue projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Referred to Ways & Means [HB3077 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3077-Introduced.html
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By: Rodriguez of Travis | H.B. No. 3077 |
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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; | ||
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improvements or additions to a parks and recreation system, or an | ||
area or facility that is part of a [ |
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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[ |
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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. |