Bill Text: TX SB2192 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the notice and petition for the creation of a municipal utility district in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2023-06-18 - Vetoed by the Governor [SB2192 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2192-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 2192 |
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relating to the notice and petition for the creation of a municipal | ||
utility district in certain counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 54.001(4) and (5), Water Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(4) "Commission" means the Texas [ |
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(5) "Executive director" means the executive director | ||
of the commission [ |
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SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 54.0135 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 54.0135. PRE-PETITION NOTICE TO CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) | ||
This section applies only to a proposed district described by | ||
Section 54.0161(a). | ||
(b) Before a petition requesting creation of a proposed | ||
district is filed with the commission under Section 54.014, notice | ||
must be sent by certified mail to the commissioners court of each | ||
county in which the proposed district is to be located. The notice | ||
must: | ||
(1) generally describe the boundaries of the land to | ||
be included in the proposed district, including, if possible, by | ||
metes and bounds or by lot and block number if there is a recorded | ||
map or plat and survey of the area to be included in the district; | ||
and | ||
(2) inform the commissioners court of the right to: | ||
(A) respond to the notice provided under this | ||
section; | ||
(B) review the petition requesting creation of | ||
the proposed district; and | ||
(C) submit a written opinion on the creation of | ||
the proposed district under Section 54.0161. | ||
(c) Notice under this section must be sent by certified mail | ||
at least 30 days before the date a petition requesting creation of | ||
the proposed district is filed with the commission under Section | ||
54.014. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 54.015, Water Code, is amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 54.015. CONTENTS OF PETITION. The petition shall: | ||
(1) describe the boundaries of the proposed district | ||
by metes and bounds or by lot and block number, if there is a | ||
recorded map or plat and survey of the area; | ||
(2) state the general nature of the work proposed to be | ||
done, the necessity for the work, and the cost of the project as | ||
then estimated by those filing the petition; [ |
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(3) include a name of the district which shall be | ||
generally descriptive of the locale of the district followed by the | ||
words Municipal Utility District, or if a district is located | ||
within one county, it may be designated "__________ County | ||
Municipal Utility District No. ______." (Insert the name of the | ||
county and proper consecutive number.) The proposed district shall | ||
not have the same name as any other district in the same county; and | ||
(4) for a district described by Section 54.0161, | ||
include a copy of the notice described by Section 54.0135. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 54.0135, Water Code, as added by this | ||
Act, and Section 54.015, Water Code, as amended by this Act, apply | ||
only to the creation of a municipal utility district on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. A petition requesting creation of a | ||
municipal utility district pending before the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality on the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
by the law in effect on the date the petition was filed, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2192 passed the Senate on | ||
April 27, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2023, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2192 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 118, | ||
Nays 20, one present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |