Bill Text: TX HB2232 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of regional military sustainability commissions for certain military installations.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2232 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB2232-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 2232

AN ACT
relating to the creation of regional military sustainability
commissions for certain military installations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 397A.052(a), (b), and (c), Local
Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) This section applies only to:
(1) a county:
(A) in which three or more locations of a joint
military base are located; and
(B) with a population of more than 1.7 million;
(2) a county that is adjacent to a county described by
Subdivision (1); and
(3) a municipality located in a county described by
Subdivision (1) or (2).
(b) One or more municipalities [A county with
unincorporated area located within five miles of the boundary line
of a military installation, and a municipality with a population of
1.1 million or more and] with extraterritorial jurisdiction located
within five miles of the boundary line of a military installation
and one or more counties with unincorporated area located within
five miles of the boundary of a military installation[, each of
which, with respect to the same military installation, constitutes
a defense community as defined by Section 397.001,] may agree by
order, ordinance, or other means to establish and fund a regional
military sustainability commission under this subchapter with
respect to the military installation [in an area that is located:
[(1) in the same county as the active military
installation; and
[(2) in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the
municipality].
[(b) Defense communities may not establish more than one
commission in a county.]
(c) A [Except as provided by Subsection (d), a] commission's
territory consists of the [unincorporated] area:
(1) located outside the military installation's
boundaries and:
(A) within two miles of the boundary line of a
military installation, except as provided by Paragraph (B); or
(B) for a commission established for a military
installation engaged in flight training at the time the commission
is established, within a rectangle bounded by lines located no
farther than 1-1/2 statute miles from the centerline of a runway of
the installation and lines located no farther than five statute
miles from each end of the paved surface of a runway of the
installation;
(2) located in:
(A) the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a
participating municipality; or
(B) the unincorporated area of a participating
county; and
(3) designated as the commission's territory when the
commission is established.
SECTION 2. Section 397A.052(d), Local Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act do not affect
a regional military sustainability commission created under
Section 397A.052, Local Government Code, before the effective date
of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2232 was passed by the House on April
30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2232 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor