Bill Text: TX HB1474 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
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-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1474 | ||
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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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1474 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 18, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 21, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1474 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
