Bill Text: TX HB3316 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to venue projects in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-27 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB3316 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3316-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Hunter | H.B. No. 3316 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3316: | |||
| By: Hilderbran | C.S.H.B. No. 3316 | ||
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| relating to venue projects in certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 334, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 334.0083 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 334.0083. VENUE PROJECTS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) In | ||
| this section, "venue" has the meaning assigned by Section 334.001 | ||
| and includes a tourism development project such as a park, | ||
| aquarium, birding center, bird viewing site, history center, art | ||
| center, nature center, nature trail, museum, or water-related | ||
| project that creates or enhances an activity involving water sports | ||
| or fishing. | ||
| (b) A county with a population of 40,000 or less in which at | ||
| least one state park and one national wildlife refuge are located | ||
| may plan, acquire, establish, develop, construct, or renovate a | ||
| venue as a venue project under this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. | ||
