Bill Text: TX HB3099 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the effect of municipal annexation of the Venable Ranch Municipal Utility District No. 1 of Denton County; affecting the authority to impose a tax.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2015-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB3099 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3099-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 3099

AN ACT
relating to the effect of municipal annexation of the Venable Ranch
Municipal Utility District No. 1 of Denton County; affecting the
authority to impose a tax.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 8469.251(a), Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, if all of the territory
of the district or a district created by the division of the
district is annexed by the city into the corporate limits of the
city [before the date of the election held to confirm the creation
of the district and the district is confirmed at that election], the
district may not be dissolved and continues in existence following
annexation until:
(1) water, sanitary sewer, and drainage improvements
and roads have been constructed to serve at least 90 percent of the
territory of the district capable of development; or
(2) the board adopts a resolution consenting to the
dissolution of the district.
SECTION 2. Section 8469.251(b), Special District Local Laws
Code, as added by Chapter 1244 (S.B. 1877), Acts of the 83rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows:
(b) After annexation by the city:
(1) [the district may not impose an ad valorem tax;
[(2)] the district may impose a special assessment in
the manner provided by Subchapter F, Chapter 375, Local Government
Code; and
(2) [(3)] Section 375.161, Local Government Code,
does not apply to the district.
SECTION 3. Section 8469.251(b), Special District Local Laws
Code, as added by Chapter 1308 (H.B. 3914), Acts of the 83rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is redesignated as Section
8469.251(c) to read as follows:
(c) [(b)] Notwithstanding Section 54.016(f)(2), Water
Code, an allocation agreement between the city and the district
that provides for the allocation of the taxes or revenues of the
district and the city following the date of inclusion of the
district's territory in the corporate limits of the city may
provide that the total annual ad valorem taxes collected by the city
and the district from taxable property within the city's corporate
limits may exceed the city's ad valorem tax on that property.
SECTION 4. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
Government Code.
(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality.
(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
representatives within the required time.
(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
and accomplished.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3099 was passed by the House on May
22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 1, 2 present, not
voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3099 was passed by the Senate on May
27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor