By: Otto (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 737
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 2011;
May 16, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Intergovernmental Relations; May 24, 2011, rereferred to Committee
on International Relations and Trade; May 24, 2011, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 24, 2011,
sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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Code, is repealed.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.
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