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Amend CSHB 3646 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS 
of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 3(5), Cultural Education Facilities 
Finance Corporation Act (Article 1528m, Vernon's Texas Civil 
Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
		(5)  "Cultural facility" means any capital expenditure 
by a  user.  The term includes:
			(A)  real property or an interest in real 
property, including buildings and improvements, or equipment, 
furnishings, or other personal property that:
				(i)  is found by the board to be necessary or 
convenient to finance, refinance, acquire, construct, enlarge, 
remodel, renovate, improve, furnish, or equip for cultural 
education or community benefit;
				(ii)  is made available for use by the 
general public, the user, or community groups; and
				(iii)  is used for a purpose described by 
Section 2(a)(1) of this Act; [and]
			(B)  a facility in which any of the following 
entities engage in any activity in which the entity is permitted to 
engage:
				(i)  a nonprofit corporation exempt from the 
state franchise tax under Section 171.063, Tax Code;
				(ii)  an organization described in Section 
11.18, Tax Code; or     
				(iii)  an organization described in Section 
501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and
			(C)  facilities incidental, subordinate, or 
related to or appropriate in connection with property described by 
Paragraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision, [located within the 
state,] regardless of the date of construction or acquisition.
	SECTION ____.  Section 4, Cultural Education Facilities 
Finance Corporation Act (Article 1528m, Vernon's Texas Civil 
Statutes), is amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding 
Subsection (e) to read as follows:
	(b)  The corporation shall be created and organized in the 
same manner as a health facilities development corporation under 
Chapter 221, Health and Safety Code, and has the same powers, 
authority, and rights:
		(1)  with respect to cultural facilities and health 
facilities that a health facilities development corporation has 
with respect to health facilities under Chapter 221, Health and 
Safety Code;  and
		(2)  with respect to educational facilities, housing 
facilities, and other facilities incidental, subordinate, or 
related to those facilities that a nonprofit corporation created 
under Section 53.35(b), Education Code, or an authority created 
under Section 53.11, Education Code, has under Chapter 53, 
Education Code.
	(e)  Regardless of any other provision in Chapter 221, Health 
and Safety Code, or Chapter 53, Education Code, the corporation may 
exercise its powers on behalf of a user outside of this state if the 
user also conducts lawful activities in this state.