89R11808 RDS-F By: Hagenbuch S.B. No. 1857 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain tax revenue for certain qualified projects. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 351.1015(b), Tax Code, as amended by Chapters 644 (H.B. 4559), 779 (H.B. 5012), 927 (S.B. 2220), and 1110 (S.B. 1057), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, is reenacted and amended to read as follows: (b) This section applies only to a qualified project located in: (1) a municipality with a population of at least 700,000 but less than 950,000 according to the most recent federal decennial census; [or] (2) a municipality that contains more than 70 percent of the population of a county with a population of 1.5 million or more; (3) [(2)] a municipality described by Section 351.001(7)(B); (4) [or [(3)] a municipality described by Section 351.152(61); (5) [(2)] a municipality with a population of at least two million; or (6) a municipality described by Section 351.152(15) that has a population of 200,000 or more. SECTION 2. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.