Bill Text: TX HB553 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the approval by commissioners courts of the annual budget of emergency services districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-20 - Left pending in committee [HB553 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB553-Introduced.html
| 87R93 JCG-D | ||
| By: Thompson of Brazoria | H.B. No. 553 | |
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| relating to the approval by commissioners courts of the annual | ||
| budget of emergency services districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 775, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 775.0737 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 775.0737. BUDGET APPROVAL REQUIRED. (a) This section | ||
| does not apply to a district described by Section 775.302(a). | ||
| (b) The commissioners court of a county in which a district | ||
| is located shall adopt a schedule for the district to submit to the | ||
| county for final approval the district's annual budget, tax rate | ||
| calculations and notices, and recommended tax rate. | ||
| (c) The schedule must take into account requirements of this | ||
| chapter, Chapter 26, Tax Code, and Section 21, Article VIII, Texas | ||
| Constitution, applicable to adopting a district tax rate, and must | ||
| provide a reasonable amount of time for the commissioners court to | ||
| review the submissions required by Subsection (d). If the district | ||
| is located wholly or partly in more than one county, the county | ||
| commissioners court of each county in which the district is located | ||
| shall coordinate to develop the schedule jointly. | ||
| (d) In accordance with the schedule adopted under this | ||
| section, the board shall submit to each commissioners court of a | ||
| county in which the district is located the district's annual | ||
| budget, tax rate calculations and notices, and recommended tax | ||
| rate. | ||
| (e) If a commissioners court does not approve or deny a | ||
| budget submitted under this section before the 31st day after the | ||
| date the budget is submitted, the commissioners court is considered | ||
| to have approved the budget. | ||
| (f) If a commissioners court does not approve or deny a tax | ||
| rate recommended under this section before the 31st day after the | ||
| date the recommended tax rate is submitted, the commissioners court | ||
| is considered to have approved the recommended tax rate. | ||
| (g) If a commissioners court denies the annual budget | ||
| submitted under Subsection (d), the district may not make | ||
| expenditures under that budget except for an obligation incurred | ||
| before the beginning of the fiscal year for which the budget was | ||
| submitted. | ||
| (h) If a commissioners court denies the tax rate submitted | ||
| under Subsection (d), the district may not impose the tax at a rate | ||
| greater than that imposed in the fiscal year preceding the one for | ||
| which the tax rate was submitted. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
