Bill Text: TX HB1474 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a common characteristic or use project in a public improvement district in certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1474 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1474-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a common characteristic or use project in a public improvement district in certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1474 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1474-Comm_Sub.html
By: Anderson (Senate Sponsor - Birdwell) | H.B. No. 1474 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2019; | ||
April 24, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 2019, reported favorably by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to a common characteristic or use project in a public | ||
improvement district in certain municipalities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 372.0035, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) This section applies only to: | ||
(1) a municipality that: | ||
(A) has a population of more than 650,000 and | ||
less than two million; [ |
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(B) has a population of more than 325,000 and | ||
less than 625,000; or | ||
(C) has a population of more than 105,000 and is | ||
wholly located in a county with a population of less than 250,000; | ||
and | ||
(2) a public improvement district established under | ||
this subchapter and solely composed of territory in which the only | ||
businesses are: | ||
(A) hotels with 100 or more rooms ordinarily used | ||
for sleeping, if the district is established by a municipality | ||
described by Subdivision (1)(A); or | ||
(B) hotels with 75 or more rooms ordinarily used | ||
for sleeping, if the district is established by a municipality | ||
described by Subdivision (1)(B) or (C). | ||
(e) A municipality may undertake a project under this | ||
section only for a purpose described by Section 372.003(b)(13). | ||
SECTION 2. The limitation on authority imposed by Section | ||
372.0035(e), Local Government Code, as added by this Act, applies | ||
only to a common characteristic or use project undertaken by a | ||
municipality on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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