Bill Text: TX HB4749 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of economic development corporations created by certain rural municipalities to undertake infrastructure planning projects.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-18 - Left pending in committee [HB4749 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4749-Introduced.html
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| By: Lopez of Cameron | H.B. No. 4749 | |
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| relating to the authority of economic development corporations | ||
| created by certain rural municipalities to undertake | ||
| infrastructure planning projects. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 501, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 501.108 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 501.108. RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING PROJECTS. (a) | ||
| This section applies only to a corporation authorized to be created | ||
| by a municipality that during the 12-month period preceding the | ||
| date of the undertaking of a project authorized by this section, has | ||
| an average unemployment rate that is greater than the state average | ||
| unemployment rate and: | ||
| (1) has a population of less than 100,000; | ||
| (2) is located wholly in a county designated as rural | ||
| by the Texas Department of Agriculture; or | ||
| (3) is part of a micropolitan statistical area with a | ||
| population of less than 150,000 in which the municipalities are | ||
| adjoined with regional water, sewer, drainage, and irrigation | ||
| systems. | ||
| (b) For a corporation to which this section applies, in | ||
| this subtitle, "project" includes expenditures found by the board | ||
| of directors to be required or suitable for the development and | ||
| engineering of plans for infrastructure for the purpose of being | ||
| ready to begin construction immediately after receiving a state or | ||
| federal grant that may be spent for infrastructure, notwithstanding | ||
| any limitation of expenditures under Section 501.103. The project | ||
| may include interlocal agreements in cooperation with any regional | ||
| or overlapping water, sewer, or drainage district or regional | ||
| system. | ||
| (c) An expenditure made under this section must prioritize: | ||
| (1) the economic goals of the community; and | ||
| (2) the mitigation of flood, storm, or other natural | ||
| disaster incidents that have increased risks of damage to business, | ||
| industrial, and affordable housing sites or zones, including by | ||
| prioritizing projects for: | ||
| (A) water, sewer, drainage, railroad, or road | ||
| underground borings or crossing improvements to distressed | ||
| business, industry, or affordable housing sites or zones where | ||
| local revenues are unavailable; and | ||
| (B) sewer and wastewater disposal facilities | ||
| required or suitable for infrastructure necessary to promote or | ||
| develop new, expanded business and industrial area enterprises or | ||
| affordable housing sites or projects. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. | ||
