Bill Text: TX HB2987 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to certain water districts that do not provide water and sanitary sewer service to certain users in the districts' territory.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-09 - No action taken in committee [HB2987 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2987-Introduced.html
  83R3516 SGA-F
 
  By: J. Davis of Harris H.B. No. 2987
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain water districts that do not provide water and
  sanitary sewer service to certain users in the districts'
  territory.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 43.0761(a) and (b), Local Government
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A district existing on September 1, 1997, that, within
  10 years after the date of its creation, has not provided water and
  sanitary sewer utility service from its facilities to all household
  users in its territory shall:
               (1)  provide water and sanitary sewer utility service
  from its facilities to all household users in its territory not
  later than September 1, 1998; or
               (2)  for that part of the district for which the
  district does not provide water and sanitary sewer utility service,
  and for which one or more of a municipality or conservation and
  reclamation district created as a governmental agency and body
  politic and corporate under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas
  Constitution, does provide all or part of those services, provide
  for periodic payments, as described by Subsection (b), by the
  district to the municipality or governmental agency that provides
  the services.
         (b)  Payments made under Subsection (a)(2) are operation and
  maintenance expenses of the district and shall be made at least
  every three months. The total annual amount of the payments may not
  exceed the lesser of:
               (1)  the total aggregate annual costs to any [cost to
  the] municipality or governmental agency of providing the water and
  sanitary sewer utility service, including both capital and
  operation and maintenance costs and expenses; or
               (2)  the total annual amount of maintenance and
  operation taxes and debt service or bond taxes paid to the district
  by the owners of taxable property within the district that receives
  water and sanitary sewer utility service from one or more
  municipalities or governmental agencies [the municipality].
         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, 2013.
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