Bill Text: TX HB363 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to urban renewal authority of municipalities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-16 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB363 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB363-Introduced.html
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| By: Turner | H.B. No. 363 | |
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| 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 [ |
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| 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 [ |
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| (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 [ |
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| 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. | ||
