H-8207

   Amend House File 2445 as follows:
   1.  Page 5, line 18, by striking <investment> and inserting <investment infrastructure>
   2.  Page 8, after line 12 by inserting: 

<DIVISION ___
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REGIONS
   Sec. ___.  Section 15E.231, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2014, is amended to read as follows:

   In order for an economic development region to receive assistance pursuant to section 15.335B, an economic development region’s regional development plan must be approved by the authority. An economic development region shall consist of not less than three counties, unless two contiguous counties have a combined population of at least three hundred thousand based on the most recent federal decennial census two or more public or private, nonprofit entities that have entered into an agreement to pursue mutual economic development goals with a regional focus. An economic development region shall establish a focused economic development effort that shall include a regional development plan relating to one or more of the following areas:
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This division of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.>
   3.  By renumbering, redesignating, and correcting internal references as necessary.

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BALTIMORE of Boone