Bill Text: TX HB3485 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3485 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the addition of certain municipalities to the territory of a regional transportation authority.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-05 - Referred to Transportation [HB3485 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3485-Introduced.html

	84R6302 JRR-F

	By: Turner of Tarrant	H.B. No. 3485



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the addition of certain municipalities to the territory
	of a regional transportation authority.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter P, Chapter 452, Transportation Code,
	is amended by adding Section 452.6026 to read as follows:
	Sec. 452.6026. ADDITION OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES BY
	ELECTION; DELAYED ENTRY. (a) In this section, "special sales and
	use tax" means a sales and use tax levied by a municipality that is
	in excess of one percent.
	(b) This section applies only to a municipality that levies
	a special sales and use tax that, when combined with the authority's
	sales and use tax, would result in a sales and use tax rate of more
	than two percent in the territory of the municipality.
	(c) A municipality that does not have territory that is part
	of an authority may be added to the territory of an authority on a
	date determined by the executive committee if:
	(1) any part of the territory of the municipality is
	located in a county in which the authority has territory or in a
	county that is adjacent to a county in which the authority has
	territory;
	(2) the executive committee states, by resolution, the
	authority's intention to provide transportation services in the
	territory of the municipality;
	(3) the governing body of the municipality calls an
	election on the addition of the territory of the municipality to the
	territory of the authority; and
	(4) a majority of the votes cast in the election favor
	the proposition.
	(d) At any time after the date of the election approving the
	addition of the territory of the municipality to the territory of
	the authority, the executive committee and the governing body of
	the municipality may enter into an interlocal agreement that
	provides for the eventual admission of the territory of the
	municipality to the territory of the authority, provided that the
	admission of the territory of the municipality to the territory of
	the authority is delayed until the municipality's special sales and
	use tax is reduced to a rate that will not impair the imposition of
	the authority's sales and use tax.
	(e) Notwithstanding Section 452.607, a sales and use tax
	imposed by the authority takes effect in the territory of the
	municipality on the first day of the first calendar quarter that
	begins after the date the comptroller receives a certified copy of
	an order adopted by the executive committee adding the territory of
	the municipality, accompanied by a map of the authority clearly
	showing the territory added.
	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, 2015.