Bill Text: TX SB884 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain counties to use county revenue or incur debt to improve or redevelop certain sports facilities.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-17 - Referred to County Affairs [SB884 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB884-Engrossed.html
| By: Whitmire, et al. | S.B. No. 884 | |
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| relating to the authority of certain counties to use county revenue | ||
| or incur debt to improve or redevelop certain sports facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 330, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 330.002 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 330.002. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF CERTAIN COUNTIES | ||
| TO IMPROVE OR REDEVELOP CERTAIN SPORTS FACILITIES. (a) In this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) "County revenue" includes revenue from property | ||
| taxes, hotel occupancy taxes, fees, and fines. | ||
| (2) "Obsolete sports facility" means a multipurpose | ||
| arena, coliseum, or stadium designed to be used in part as a venue | ||
| for professional sports events and that opened to the public before | ||
| 1966. | ||
| (b) This section applies only to a county with a population | ||
| of 3.3 million or more. | ||
| (c) A county may not fund, in whole or in part, the | ||
| improvement or redevelopment of an obsolete sports facility with | ||
| county revenue or debt if the improvement or redevelopment will | ||
| cost $10 million or more, unless the funding is approved by the | ||
| voters of the county at an election held for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. | ||
