Bill Text: TX HB2553 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to revenue sharing agreements between certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-15 - Referred to Ways & Means [HB2553 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2553-Introduced.html
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By: Brown | H.B. No. 2553 |
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relating to revenue sharing agreements between certain | ||
municipalities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 4, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 109 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 109. REVENUE SHARING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN CERTAIN | ||
MUNICIPALITIES | ||
Sec. 109.001. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies only to | ||
a home-rule municipality located in a county: | ||
(1) with a population of less than 200,000; and | ||
(2) in which two or more municipalities with a | ||
population of 75,000 or more are primarily located. | ||
Sec. 109.002. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "revenue" means | ||
a municipal property tax, sales tax, fee, fine, or cost of court. | ||
Sec. 109.003. REVENUE SHARING AGREEMENT. (a) Two or more | ||
municipalities may make a revenue sharing agreement that: | ||
(1) designates a revenue sharing territory in one or | ||
more of the municipalities; and | ||
(2) provides that a portion of the revenue a | ||
municipality derives from the revenue sharing territory may be | ||
transferred to another municipality in exchange for the other | ||
municipality's contribution to the economic development of the | ||
territory. | ||
(b) The municipalities must agree to contribute to the | ||
economic development of the revenue sharing territory in a manner | ||
that is feasible and consistent with the development policies for | ||
the revenue sharing territory. A municipality may not make a gift | ||
or grant of revenue to another municipality under a revenue sharing | ||
agreement. | ||
Sec. 109.004. USE OF REVENUE. A municipality may use | ||
revenue obtained under a revenue sharing agreement for any public | ||
purpose. | ||
Sec. 109.005. CONFLICT PROVISIONS. (a) To the extent this | ||
chapter conflicts with any other law, this chapter controls. | ||
(b) To the extent a provision of a revenue sharing agreement | ||
adopted in accordance with this chapter conflicts with a municipal | ||
charter provision, the provision of the agreement controls. | ||
SECTION 2. 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. |