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1	1	By: Otto (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 737
2	2	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 2011;
3	3	May 16, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
4	4	Intergovernmental Relations; May 24, 2011, rereferred to Committee
5	5	on International Relations and Trade; May 24, 2011, reported
6	6	favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 24, 2011,
7	7	sent to printer.)
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9	9
10	10	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
11	11	AN ACT
12	12	relating to the East Montgomery County Improvement District.
13	13	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	14	SECTION 1. Section 3846.001(3), Special District Local Laws
15	15	Code, is amended to read as follows:
16	16	(3) "Venue" means:
17	17	(A) an arena, coliseum, stadium, or other type of
18	18	area or facility:
19	19	(i) that is used or is planned for use for
20	20	one or more professional or amateur sports events, community
21	21	events, or other sports events, including rodeos, livestock shows,
22	22	agricultural expositions, promotional events, and other civic or
23	23	charitable events; and
24	24	(ii) for which a fee for admission to the
25	25	events is charged or is planned to be charged; or
26	26	(B) a convention center facility or related
27	27	improvement such as a convention center, civic center, civic center
28	28	building, civic center hotel, auditorium, theater, opera house,
29	29	music hall, exhibition hall, rehearsal hall, park, zoological park,
30	30	museum, aquarium, tourist development area along an inland
31	31	waterway, or plaza.
32	32	SECTION 2. Section 3846.155(c), Special District Local Laws
33	33	Code, is repealed.
34	34	SECTION 3. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
35	35	introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
36	36	Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
37	37	copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
38	38	officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
39	39	under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
40	40	Government Code.
41	41	(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
42	42	submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
43	43	Environmental Quality.
44	44	(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
45	45	its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor,
46	46	lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives
47	47	within the required time.
48	48	(d) The general law relating to consent by political
49	49	subdivisions to the creation of districts with conservation,
50	50	reclamation, and road powers and the inclusion of land in those
51	51	districts has been complied with.
52	52	(e) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
53	53	state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
54	54	to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act have been
55	55	fulfilled and accomplished.
56	56	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
57	57	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
58	58	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
59	59	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
60	60	Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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