Bill Text: TX HB737 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the East Montgomery County Improvement District.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB737 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB737-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 737 | ||
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| relating to the East Montgomery County Improvement District. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 3846.001(3), Special District Local Laws | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (3) "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; or | ||
| (B) a convention center facility or related | ||
| improvement such as a convention center, civic center, civic center | ||
| building, civic center hotel, auditorium, theater, opera house, | ||
| music hall, exhibition hall, rehearsal hall, park, zoological park, | ||
| museum, aquarium, tourist development area along an inland | ||
| waterway, or plaza. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 3846.155(c), Special District Local Laws | ||
| Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) The legal notice of the intention to | ||
| introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this | ||
| Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a | ||
| copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies, | ||
| officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished | ||
| under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313, | ||
| Government Code. | ||
| (b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has | ||
| submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality. | ||
| (c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed | ||
| its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, | ||
| lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives | ||
| within the required time. | ||
| (d) The general law relating to consent by political | ||
| subdivisions to the creation of districts with conservation, | ||
| reclamation, and road powers and the inclusion of land in those | ||
| districts has been complied with. | ||
| (e) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this | ||
| state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect | ||
| to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act have been | ||
| fulfilled and accomplished. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 737 was passed by the House on May 13, | ||
| 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 737 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
