Bill Text: TX HB2207 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a bill payment assistance program, and the authority of the board of trustees to set rates, for certain municipal utility systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2207 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2207-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a bill payment assistance program, and the authority of the board of trustees to set rates, for certain municipal utility systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2207 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2207-Comm_Sub.html
By: Oliveira (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) | H.B. No. 2207 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2011; | ||
April 26, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Intergovernmental Relations; May 20, 2011, reported adversely, | ||
with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, | ||
Nays 0; May 20, 2011, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2207 | By: Nichols |
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relating to the authority of the board of trustees to set rates for | ||
certain municipal utility systems. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 552.141, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 552.141. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter | ||
applies only to a home-rule municipality that owns or may own a | ||
water, wastewater, storm water, or drainage utility system, by | ||
ordinance or charter elects to have the management and control of | ||
two or more of those utility systems governed by this subchapter, | ||
and: | ||
(1) has outstanding obligations payable solely from | ||
and secured by a lien on and pledge of the net revenue of one or more | ||
of those systems; or | ||
(2) issues obligations that are payable solely from | ||
and secured by a lien on and pledge of the net revenue of one or more | ||
of those systems. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 552.142(a), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A municipality by ordinance may transfer management and | ||
control of two or more of its water, wastewater, storm water, or | ||
drainage systems to a board of trustees. A municipality by | ||
ordinance may grant the board authority to set rates and related | ||
terms for the systems. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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