Bill Amendment: TX HB1526 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

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Bill Title: Relating to parkland dedication for multifamily, hotel, and motel property development by certain municipalities; authorizing a fee.

Status: 2023-05-25 - Sent to the Governor [HB1526 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1526-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F1-Eckhardt.html

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Amend HB 1526 (senate committee printing) in SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Subchapter H, Chapter 212, Local Government Code, as follows:

(1)  In Section 212.201 (page 1, between lines 35 and 36), add the following appropriately numbered subdivision and renumber subsequent subdivisions accordingly:

(__) "Floodplain" means an area designated by the appropriate federal governmental authority as having a one percent or greater annual chance of flooding.

(2)  Strike Section 212.010(d)(2) (page 4, lines 12-14) and substitute the following:

(2)  subtracting from the amount calculated under Subdivision (1) the sum of:

(A)  the product of the average land value applicable to the land and the number of acres dedicated that are not in a floodplain; and

(B)  the product of 50 percent of the average land value applicable to the land and the number of acres dedicated that are in a floodplain.

(3)  Strike Section 212.011(c) (page 4, lines 35-39) and substitute the following:

(c)  A municipality shall determine the amount of a fee imposed under Section 212.205(a)(2) for land subject to a plan application by subtracting from the amount of the fee set under Subsection (b) by the sum of:

(1)  the product of the land value applicable to the land and the number of acres dedicated that are not in a floodplain; and

(2)  the product of 50 percent of the land value applicable to the land and the number of acres dedicated that are in a floodplain.