Bill Text: TX HB2654 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the personal liability of certain elected officials under local government programs to fund water and energy savings improvements through assessments.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2654 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2654-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the personal liability of certain elected officials under local government programs to fund water and energy savings improvements through assessments.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2654 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2654-Comm_Sub.html
By: Stucky, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) | H.B. No. 2654 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; | ||
May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs; May 16, 2017, reported | ||
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 16, 2017, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the personal liability of certain elected officials | ||
under local government programs to fund water and energy savings | ||
improvements through assessments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 399.015, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 399.015. CONTRACT FOR COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS; NO | ||
PERSONAL LIABILITY. (a) The governing body of a local government | ||
may contract with the governing body of another taxing unit, as | ||
defined by Section 1.04, Tax Code, or another entity, including a | ||
county assessor-collector, to perform the duties of the local | ||
government relating to collection of assessments imposed by the | ||
local government under this chapter. | ||
(b) A county assessor-collector who performs the duties of a | ||
local government relating to collection of assessments imposed by a | ||
local government under this chapter is not personally liable as a | ||
result of exercising those duties under this chapter. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 399.019, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 399.019. NO PERSONAL LIABILITY. The members of the | ||
governing body of a local government, other elected officials of a | ||
local government, employees of a local government, and board | ||
members, executives, employees, and contractors of a third party | ||
who enter into a contract with a local government to provide | ||
administrative services for a program under this chapter are not | ||
personally liable as a result of exercising any rights or | ||
responsibilities granted under this chapter. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 399.015, Local Government Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, applies only to a contract executed on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. A contract executed before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the | ||
contract was executed, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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