85R11863 SCL-D
By: Lucio III H.B. No. 3010
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing and financing certain sports and community
venue projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 334.001, Local Government Code, is
amended by amending Subdivisions (1) and (4) and adding Subdivision
(1-a) to read as follows:
(1) "Active transportation" means transportation that
is primarily powered by human energy. The term includes walking,
running, and bicycling.
(1-a) "Approved venue project" means a sports and
community venue project that has been approved under this chapter
by the voters of a municipality or county.
(4) "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;
(B) a convention center, convention center
facility as defined by Section 351.001(2) or 352.001(2), Tax Code,
or related improvement such as a civic center hotel, theater, opera
house, music hall, rehearsal hall, park, zoological park, museum,
aquarium, or plaza located in the vicinity of a convention center or
facility owned by a municipality or a county;
(C) a tourist development area [along an inland
waterway];
(D) a municipal parks and recreation system, or
improvements or additions to a parks and recreation system, or an
area or facility, including an area or facility for active
transportation use, that is part of a municipal parks and
recreation system;
(E) a project authorized by Section 4A or 4B,
Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas
Civil Statutes), as that Act existed on September 1, 1997; [and]
(F) a watershed protection and preservation
project; a recharge, recharge area, or recharge feature protection
project; a conservation easement; or an open-space preservation
program intended to protect water; and
(G) an airport facility located in a municipality
located on the international border.
SECTION 2. Section 334.1015, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 334.1015. APPLICATION. (a) Except as provided by
Subsection (b), this [This] subchapter does not apply to the
financing of a venue project that is an area or facility that is
part of a municipal parks and recreation system.
(b) This subsection applies only to a municipality located
on the international border. This subchapter applies to the
financing of a venue project that is an area or facility that is
part of a municipal parks and recreation system, including an area
of the system for active transportation use.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.