Bill Text: TX HB447 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to traffic impact studies conducted before the issuance of certain municipal utility district bonds.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-13 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB447 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB447-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Bell of Kaufman | H.B. No. 447 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 447: | |||
| By: Gates | C.S.H.B. No. 447 | ||
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| relating to traffic impact studies conducted before the issuance of | ||
| certain municipal utility district bonds. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 54.5162 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 54.5162. TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDIES CONDUCTED BEFORE | ||
| ISSUANCE OF CERTAIN BONDS. (a) This section applies only to a | ||
| district that is: | ||
| (1) authorized by general or special law to exercise | ||
| the power of eminent domain; and | ||
| (2) located wholly or partly in a county that: | ||
| (A) contains a portion of the Cedar Creek | ||
| Reservoir; and | ||
| (B) borders a county with a population of 2.6 | ||
| million or more. | ||
| (b) A district may not issue bonds to finance a road project | ||
| unless the district: | ||
| (1) conducts a traffic impact study of that portion of | ||
| each farm-to-market road, county road, state highway, interstate | ||
| highway, or other public road, including each intersection of the | ||
| road, located: | ||
| (A) inside the district; or | ||
| (B) within one-half mile of the district if the | ||
| road: | ||
| (i) crosses the boundaries of the district; | ||
| or | ||
| (ii) intersects a public road that crosses | ||
| the boundaries of the district; and | ||
| (2) submits the results of the study to the | ||
| commissioners court of each county in which the district is | ||
| located. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), a district is not | ||
| required to conduct a traffic impact study of that portion of a | ||
| public road, including any intersection of the road, that is | ||
| located in another district with authority for road projects under | ||
| Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution. | ||
| (d) A traffic impact study conducted under this section must | ||
| project for each public road or intersection subject to the study | ||
| the potential changes to traffic patterns and volumes that would | ||
| result from the proposed road project. | ||
| (e) A traffic impact study conducted under this section must | ||
| be: | ||
| (1) conducted and submitted before the tract of land | ||
| served by the road project is platted; and | ||
| (2) updated if the original plat on file with the | ||
| county is revised or amended on or after the second anniversary of | ||
| the date the plat was submitted to the county. | ||
| (f) The commissioners court of a county may waive the | ||
| requirements of this section at the discretion of the commissioners | ||
| court. | ||
| (g) A traffic impact study conducted under this section | ||
| expires on the second anniversary of the date the study was | ||
| conducted. The commissioners court of a county may accept under | ||
| Subsection (b) a traffic impact study that has expired at the | ||
| discretion of the commissioners court. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| bonds issued on or after the effective date of this Act. Bonds | ||
| issued before the effective date of this Act are governed by the law | ||
| in effect when the bonds were issued, and that former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
