Bill Text: TX HB4711 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to improvement projects of the Sabine-Neches Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-06 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB4711 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4711-Comm_Sub.html
  88R10926 LRM-F
 
  By: Manuel H.B. No. 4711
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to improvement projects of the Sabine-Neches Navigation
  District of Jefferson County, Texas.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 6B(b), (c), and (e), Chapter 1472, Acts
  of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, are amended to read
  as follows:
         (b)  The district is the project sponsor of the existing
  Sabine-Neches Waterway and any [the] improvement project
  authorized by the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of
  2014 (Pub. L. No. 113-121) or any other federal development
  initiative to improve an existing facility of the district, [and]
  deepen the Sabine-Neches Waterway, or widen the Sabine-Neches
  Waterway.  The district is also the nonfederal cost-sharing sponsor
  of an [the] improvement project under this section.  The commission
  shall make a determination on matters that may be required or
  desirable as a project sponsor to implement an [the] improvement
  project under this section.
         (c)  In the district's capacity as the project sponsor of an 
  [the] improvement project under this section, the district is
  authorized to enter into any contract, agreement, including an
  economic development agreement, or lease as necessary or convenient
  to carry out any of the district's powers granted under this
  section.  A contract, agreement, or lease, including any amendments
  to a contract, agreement, or lease, may provide any terms and
  conditions, and be for any term of years, as the commission
  determines are in the best interests of the district.  The contract,
  agreement, or lease may be entered into with any person, political
  subdivision, or governmental agency, including the United States,
  the secretary of the army or the secretary of the army's designees,
  the Army Corps of Engineers, any local government, any county
  government, any special district or authority, any local government
  corporation, any transportation corporation, any tax increment
  reinvestment zone, the State of Texas, any agency of the State of
  Texas, and any other entity.  The district is authorized to enter
  into contracts with a private entity to develop or operate any part
  of an [the] improvement project under Chapter 2267, Government
  Code, and those contracts may provide that the private entity:
               (1)  perform all or any part of the district's
  obligations under contracts or agreements with the United States;
  and
               (2)  use revenue or other money from the improvement
  project to prepay for duties or tariffs, including duties or
  tariffs that may not be effective until the improvement project is
  partially or wholly completed, which may be credited against future
  duties or tariffs.
         (e)  The district is not required to obtain approval from the
  Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for the district's
  contracts or financing related to an [the] improvement project
  under this section.  Any contracts or agreements of the district may
  be renewed or extended, and any time warrants or maintenance notes
  may be refunded in the manner provided by general law.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  The legislature validates and confirms all
  governmental acts and proceedings of the Sabine-Neches Navigation
  District of Jefferson County that were taken before the effective
  date of this Act.
         (b)  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 court
  judgment; or
               (2)  has been held invalid by a final court judgment.
         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, 2023.
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