Bill Text: TX HB4342 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the East Downtown Management District to impose a tax, fee, or assessment on certain property.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-03 - Referred to County Affairs [HB4342 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB4342-Introduced.html

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85R9720 JCG-F
By: Coleman H.B. No. 4342

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing the East Downtown Management District to
impose a tax, fee, or assessment on certain property.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 3808.157, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3808.157. PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXES, IMPACT FEES, AND
ASSESSMENTS. The district may not impose:
(1) a tax, impact fee, or assessment on a kind of
property that Chapter 375, Local Government Code, provides is
exempt from the imposition of a tax, impact fee, or assessment by a
district governed by that chapter [a residential property or
condominium]; or
(2) an impact fee or assessment on the property,
equipment, or facilities of a person that provides to the public
cable television, gas, light, power, telephone, sewage, or water
service.
SECTION 2. (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 3. 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, 2017.