Bill Text: TX HB967 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the powers of the TexAmericas Center.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB967 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB967-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 967 |
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relating to the powers of the TexAmericas Center. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 3503.003(a), Special District Local Laws | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The authority is created to: | ||
(1) accept title on approval by, and in coordination | ||
with, the governor to all or a portion of the property on, adjacent | ||
to, or related to the property described by Section 3503.004 from | ||
the United States; | ||
(2) promote the location and development of new | ||
businesses, industries, and commercial activities on or related to | ||
the property; | ||
(3) undertake a project the board considers necessary | ||
or incidental to the industrial, commercial, or business | ||
development, redevelopment, maintenance, and expansion of new or | ||
existing businesses on and for the property described by Section | ||
3503.004, including the acquisition, construction, operation, | ||
maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, replacement, improvement, | ||
extension, expansion, or enhancement of: | ||
(A) roads, bridges, and rights-of-way; | ||
(B) housing; | ||
(C) property; | ||
(D) police, fire, medical, cultural, | ||
educational, and research services, equipment, institutions, and | ||
resources; | ||
(E) other community support services; | ||
(F) flood control, water, wastewater treatment, | ||
natural gas, electricity, solid waste disposal, steam generation, | ||
communications, and all other utility facilities and services; | ||
(G) other infrastructure improvements; and | ||
(H) any other services or facilities acquired by | ||
the authority from the United States; | ||
(4) promote or support an active military base located | ||
in the same county as the authority to prevent closure or | ||
realignment of the base and attract new military missions to the | ||
base; [ |
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(5) exercise the powers granted to a conservation and | ||
reclamation district under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas | ||
Constitution; and | ||
(6) promote regional economic development and job | ||
creation inside the district's boundaries and outside of the | ||
district's boundaries in Bowie County and adjacent counties. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 3503, Special District | ||
Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 3503.112 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 3503.112. NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS FOR SPECIAL | ||
PROJECTS. (a) The authority may authorize by resolution the | ||
creation of a nonprofit corporation under the Business | ||
Organizations Code solely to undertake on behalf of the authority a | ||
project described by Section 3503.003(a)(3). | ||
(b) The board shall appoint the board of directors of each | ||
nonprofit corporation created under this section. A board member | ||
is not required to reside in the authority. | ||
(c) A board member or employee of the authority may | ||
simultaneously serve as a member of the board of directors of a | ||
nonprofit corporation. A person serving as a board member of the | ||
authority and of a nonprofit corporation created under this section | ||
may participate in all votes relating to the business of the | ||
authority or the corporation. | ||
(d) The nonprofit corporation may not exercise the power of | ||
eminent domain. | ||
(e) A nonprofit corporation created under this section is | ||
subject to Chapters 551 and 552, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 967 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 115, Nays 29, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 967 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |