Bill Text: TX HB4695 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the administration of the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County, including the authority to impose taxes.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Effective immediately [HB4695 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4695-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 4695 |
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relating to the administration of the Port of Port Arthur | ||
Navigation District of Jefferson County, including the authority to | ||
impose taxes. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 11, Chapter 197, Acts of the 58th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 11. Each commissioner shall receive for performing | ||
duties as a commissioner compensation and benefits set by the Board | ||
of Port Commissioners plus actual traveling expenses. The Board of | ||
Port Commissioners shall set the compensation and benefits of the | ||
secretary, general manager, attorneys, engineers, and all other | ||
employees, and said board shall set and determine the term and time | ||
of employment of all officers and employees of the district; | ||
provided that all officers and employees of the district, except | ||
the commissioners themselves, shall hold their offices subject to | ||
the will of the Board of Port Commissioners. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 23, Chapter 197, Acts of the 58th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, is amended to read as follows: | ||
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bonded debt and to create a sinking fund to retire the principal | ||
thereof, as well as a maintenance tax for said district within the | ||
limitations prescribed by this Act. In all matters pertaining to | ||
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in connection therewith, the laws of the State of Texas for the | ||
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depository or depositories of said district at the times and in the | ||
manner provided by law for depositing county taxes in the county | ||
depository, and such officers shall furnish such bonds and receive | ||
such compensation for their services as is now being paid for like | ||
services, and said district shall have a lien upon all property | ||
against which taxes may be levied and assessed, enforceable under | ||
the same law and in the same manner as a lien securing state and | ||
county taxes. Limitation shall not run against the district as a | ||
bar to the collection of any taxes or other public charges of the | ||
district. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) The following actions of the Port of Port | ||
Arthur Navigation District are validated and confirmed in all | ||
respects as if the actions had been done as authorized by law: | ||
(1) all acts and proceedings of the district taken | ||
before the effective date of this Act; and | ||
(2) the issuance of any bonds or the imposition of | ||
taxes, including maintenance and operations taxes, in furtherance | ||
of any bonds issued by the district. | ||
(b) A governmental act or proceeding of the district | ||
occurring after an act or proceeding validated by this Act may not | ||
be held invalid on the ground that the prior act or proceeding, in | ||
the absence of this Act, was invalid. | ||
(c) This section does not apply to any matter that on the | ||
effective date of this Act: | ||
(1) is involved in litigation if the litigation | ||
ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final | ||
judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or | ||
(2) has been held invalid by a final judgment of a | ||
court of competent jurisdiction. | ||
SECTION 4. (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 5. 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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 4695 was passed by the House on May 7, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 117, Nays 30, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 4695 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |