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

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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

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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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