Bill Text: TX HB3743 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the rights, powers, functions, and duties of the West Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 5.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB3743 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3743-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the rights, powers, functions, and duties of the West Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 5.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB3743 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3743-Comm_Sub.html
By: Workman (Senate Sponsor - Watson) | H.B. No. 3743 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 19, 2011; | ||
May 19, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Intergovernmental Relations; May 21, 2011, reported adversely, | ||
with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 3, | ||
Nays 0; May 21, 2011, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3743 | By: Nichols |
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relating to the rights, powers, functions, and duties of the West | ||
Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 5. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 6, Chapter 1214, Acts of the 71st | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended by adding | ||
Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows: | ||
(c) In addition to the rights, powers, privileges, | ||
authority, functions, and duties under Subsection (a) of this | ||
section, the district has all of the rights, powers, privileges, | ||
authority, functions, and duties relating to: | ||
(1) road districts and road utility districts created | ||
under Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution; and | ||
(2) supply and distribution facilities or systems to | ||
provide potable and nonpotable water to the residents and | ||
businesses of Travis and Hays Counties. | ||
(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (c) of this section, the | ||
district may not construct, acquire, maintain, or operate a toll | ||
road. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 1214, Acts of the 71st Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 1989, is amended by adding Section 6A to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 6A. LIMITATION ON USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN. The district | ||
may not exercise the power of eminent domain outside the district to | ||
acquire a site or easement for: | ||
(1) a road project authorized by Section 6 of this Act; | ||
or | ||
(2) a recreational facility as defined by Section | ||
49.462, Water Code. | ||
SECTION 3. (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 4. 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, 2011. | ||
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