Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

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1	1	84R2682 CLG-F
2	2	By: Stephenson H.B. No. 292
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to authorizing development corporations to finance
8	8	projects to support primary job training facilities and programs at
9	9	certain educational institutions.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 501, Local Government
12	12	Code, is amended by adding Section 501.1021 to read as follows:
13	13	Sec. 501.1021. PROJECTS RELATING TO SUPPORTING PRIMARY JOB
14	14	TRAINING FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS AT CERTAIN EDUCATIONAL
15	15	INSTITUTIONS. (a) In this section:
16	16	(1) "Authorizing municipality" means the municipality
17	17	that authorizes the creation of a corporation under this subtitle.
18	18	(2) "Public junior college" and "public technical
19	19	institute" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003, Education
20	20	Code.
21	21	(b) In this subtitle, "project" includes expenditures to
22	22	support primary job training facilities or programs, including
23	23	expenditures for training equipment, at:
24	24	(1) a public junior college, public technical
25	25	institute, or high school located in the authorizing municipality
26	26	of a corporation; and
27	27	(2) a public junior college the service area of which
28	28	includes any portion of the authorizing municipality of a
29	29	corporation.
30	30	(c) A corporation may enter into an agreement with one or
31	31	more educational institutions with respect to a project under this
32	32	section that is financed wholly or partly under this subtitle.
33	33	SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 504, Local Government
34	34	Code, is amended by adding Section 504.172 to read as follows:
35	35	Sec. 504.172. AUTHORITY TO UNDERTAKE PROJECTS TO SUPPORT
36	36	PRIMARY JOB TRAINING FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS AT CERTAIN EDUCATIONAL
37	37	INSTITUTIONS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
38	38	subtitle, a Type A corporation may not use proceeds from the sales
39	39	and use tax or other corporate revenues to undertake the category of
40	40	projects described by Section 501.1021 unless the use of tax
41	41	proceeds or other corporate revenues for that purpose is authorized
42	42	as provided by this section.
43	43	(b) The governing body of a Type A corporation's authorizing
44	44	municipality by resolution may authorize the corporation to
45	45	undertake and finance the category of projects described by Section
46	46	501.1021 as provided by Subsection (a). The resolution must be
47	47	passed by majority vote of all members of the municipality's
48	48	governing body and entered in its minutes.
49	49	(c) On receipt of a petition signed by a number of
50	50	registered voters of the municipality equal to at least 10 percent
51	51	of the number of voters participating in the last general election
52	52	held in the municipality requesting an election to use the sales and
53	53	use tax proceeds and other corporate revenues for the category of
54	54	projects described by Section 501.1021, the governing body of a
55	55	Type A corporation's authorizing municipality shall order an
56	56	election on the issue.
57	57	(d) The governing body of the municipality shall order an
58	58	election required under Subsection (c) to be held on the first
59	59	authorized uniform election date prescribed by Chapter 41, Election
60	60	Code, that occurs after the date the petition is filed and that
61	61	allows sufficient time to comply with other requirements of law.
62	62	(e) The ballot in an election under this section shall be
63	63	printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition:
64	64	"Adopting the use of Type A corporation funds for projects
65	65	supporting primary job training facilities and programs at
66	66	educational institutions in the City of ________."
67	67	(f) If a majority of the voters voting on the issue do not
68	68	approve the use of sales and use tax proceeds and other corporate
69	69	revenues for the category of projects described by Section 501.1021
70	70	at an election under this section, another election concerning the
71	71	use of tax proceeds and revenues for the same category of projects
72	72	may not be held before the second anniversary of the date of the
73	73	most recent election disapproving the use of tax proceeds and
74	74	revenues for that category of projects.
75	75	SECTION 3. The heading to Subchapter D, Chapter 505, Local
76	76	Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
77	77	SUBCHAPTER D. AUTHORIZATION FOR ADDITIONAL [AUTHORIZED] PROJECTS
78	78	SECTION 4. Subchapter D, Chapter 505, Local Government
79	79	Code, is amended by adding Section 505.162 to read as follows:
80	80	Sec. 505.162. AUTHORITY TO UNDERTAKE PROJECTS TO SUPPORT
81	81	PRIMARY JOB TRAINING FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS AT CERTAIN EDUCATIONAL
82	82	INSTITUTIONS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
83	83	subtitle, a Type B corporation may not use proceeds from the sales
84	84	and use tax or other corporate revenues to undertake the category of
85	85	projects described by Section 501.1021 unless the use of tax
86	86	proceeds or other corporate revenues for that purpose is authorized
87	87	as provided by this section.
88	88	(b) The governing body of a Type B corporation's authorizing
89	89	municipality by resolution may authorize the corporation to
90	90	undertake and finance the category of projects described by Section
91	91	501.1021 as provided by Subsection (a). The resolution must be
92	92	passed by majority vote of all members of the municipality's
93	93	governing body and entered in its minutes.
94	94	(c) On receipt of a petition signed by a number of
95	95	registered voters of the municipality equal to at least 10 percent
96	96	of the number of voters participating in the last general election
97	97	held in the municipality requesting an election to use the sales and
98	98	use tax proceeds and other corporate revenues for the category of
99	99	projects described by Section 501.1021, the governing body of a
100	100	Type B corporation's authorizing municipality shall order an
101	101	election on the issue.
102	102	(d) The governing body of the municipality shall order an
103	103	election required under Subsection (c) to be held on the first
104	104	authorized uniform election date prescribed by Chapter 41, Election
105	105	Code, that occurs after the date the petition is filed and that
106	106	allows sufficient time to comply with other requirements of law.
107	107	(e) The ballot in an election under this section shall be
108	108	printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition:
109	109	"Adopting the use of Type B corporation funds for projects
110	110	supporting primary job training facilities and programs at
111	111	educational institutions in the City of ________."
112	112	(f) If a majority of the voters voting on the issue do not
113	113	approve the use of sales and use tax proceeds and other corporate
114	114	revenues for the category of projects described by Section 501.1021
115	115	at an election under this section, another election concerning the
116	116	use of tax proceeds and revenues for the same category of projects
117	117	may not be held before the second anniversary of the date of the
118	118	most recent election disapproving the use of tax proceeds and
119	119	revenues for that category of projects.
120	120	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
121	121	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
122	122	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
123	123	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
124	124	Act takes effect September 1, 2015.