Bill Text: TX HB4075 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 4075 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the dissolution of fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services districts.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB4075 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4075-Comm_Sub.html

	86R25790 JCG-F

	By: Perez	H.B. No. 4075

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4075:

	By: Cole	C.S.H.B. No. 4075



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the dissolution of fire control, prevention, and
	emergency medical services districts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 344.260(a), Local Government Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a) If less than a majority of the votes cast in a
	continuation referendum election are for the continuation of a
	district or if a majority of the votes cast in a dissolution
	referendum are for dissolution of the district:
	(1) the board shall certify that fact to the secretary
	of state not later than the 10th day after the date of the canvass of
	the returns; and
	(2) the district is dissolved and ceases to operate as
	provided by Section 344.301.
	SECTION 2. Section 344.301, Local Government Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 344.301. TIME FOR DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT. (a) A
	district is dissolved on the first uniform election date that
	occurs after the fifth anniversary of [~~five years after~~] the date
	the municipality began to impose taxes for district purposes if the
	district has not held a continuation or dissolution referendum.
	(b) The district is dissolved on the first uniform election
	date that occurs after the fifth anniversary of the date of the most
	recent continuation or dissolution referendum.
	(c) Subsection (b) does not apply to a district that is
	continued under Section 344.251(g), and that district is dissolved
	on the first uniform election date that occurs after the end
	[~~expiration~~] of the period for which it was continued.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.