Bill Text: TX HB363 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to urban renewal authority of municipalities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-16 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB363 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB363-Introduced.html
  82R960 ATP-F
 
  By: Turner H.B. No. 363
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to urban renewal authority of municipalities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 374.003(3) and (19), Local Government
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
               (3)  "Blighted area" means an area that is not a slum
  area, but that, because of deteriorating buildings, structures, or
  other improvements; defective or inadequate streets, street
  layout, or accessibility; unsanitary conditions; abnormally high
  rates of crime; or other hazardous conditions, adversely affects
  the public health, safety, morals, or welfare of the municipality
  and its residents, substantially impairs [retards] the provision of
  a sound and healthful housing environment, or results in an
  economic or social liability to the municipality. The term
  includes an area certified as a disaster area as provided by Section
  374.903.
               (19)  "Slum area" means an area within a municipality
  that is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals, and
  welfare of the municipality because the area:
                     (A)  has a predominance of buildings or other
  improvements that are dilapidated, deteriorated, or obsolete due to
  age or other reasons;
                     (B)  is prone to high population densities and
  overcrowding due to inadequate provision for open space;
                     (C)  is composed of open land that, because of its
  location within municipal limits, is necessary for sound community
  growth through replatting, planning, and development for
  predominantly residential uses; or
                     (D)  has conditions that exist due to any of the
  causes enumerated in Paragraphs (A)-(C) or any combination of those
  causes that:
                           (i)  endanger life or property by fire or
  other causes; or
                           (ii)  are conducive to:
                                 (a)  the ill health of the residents;
                                 (b)  disease transmission;
                                 (c)  abnormally high rates of infant
  mortality;
                                 (d)  abnormally high rates of juvenile
  delinquency or [and] crime; or
                                 (e)  disorderly development because of
  inadequate or improper platting for adequate residential
  development of lots, streets, and public utilities.
         SECTION 2.  Section 374.012, Local Government Code, is
  amended by amending Subsections (b) and (e) and adding Subsection
  (h) to read as follows:
         (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (h), the [The]
  governing body of the municipality must order and hold an election
  in the manner provided by Section 374.011.
         (e)  If the ballot proposition is approved or, if applicable,
  the resolution under Subsection (h) is approved, the municipality
  may not exceed the limitations imposed on the project in the
  resolution ordering the election or, if applicable, approving the
  project under Subsection (h) with respect to the area, nature, or
  amount of local funds spent on the project. If the municipality
  desires to expand the project beyond those limitations, the
  proposed expansion must be approved at an election in the manner
  provided for the original project or, if applicable, approved in
  the manner provided by Subsection (h).
         (h)  The governing body of a municipality with a population
  of more than 1.9 million may approve the exercise of powers for a
  specific urban renewal project under this section if the governing
  body adopts a resolution containing the information that a notice
  of election must contain under Subsection (c).
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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