Bill Text: TX SB2624 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the Mustang Ridge Municipal Utility District, the Wildwood Municipal Utility District, the Creedmoor Municipal Utility District, and the Williamson County Municipal Utility District No. 40; granting limited powers of eminent domain.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-26 - Recommendations filed with the Senate [SB2624 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2624-Engrossed.html
| By: Springer | S.B. No. 2624 | |
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| relating to the Mustang Ridge Municipal Utility District, the | ||
| Wildwood Municipal Utility District, the Creedmoor Municipal | ||
| Utility District, and the Williamson County Municipal Utility | ||
| District No. 40; granting limited powers of eminent domain. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| ARTICLE 1. DIVISION OF DISTRICT | ||
| SECTION 1.01. Subchapter C, Chapter 7946A, Special District | ||
| Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 7946A.0307 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 7946A.0307. DIVISION OF DISTRICT. (a) The district | ||
| may be divided into two or more new districts only if the district: | ||
| (1) has no outstanding bonded debt; and | ||
| (2) is not imposing ad valorem taxes. | ||
| (b) This chapter applies to any new district created by the | ||
| division of the district, and a new district has all the powers and | ||
| duties of the district. | ||
| (c) Any new district created by the division of the district | ||
| may not, at the time the new district is created, contain any land | ||
| outside the area described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this | ||
| chapter. | ||
| (d) The board, on its own motion or on receipt of a petition | ||
| signed by the owner or owners of a majority of the assessed value of | ||
| the real property in the district, may adopt an order dividing the | ||
| district. | ||
| (e) The board may adopt an order dividing the district | ||
| before or after the date the board holds an election under Section | ||
| 7946A.0103 to confirm the district's creation. | ||
| (f) An order dividing the district shall: | ||
| (1) name each new district; | ||
| (2) include the metes and bounds description of the | ||
| territory of each new district; | ||
| (3) appoint temporary directors for each new district; | ||
| and | ||
| (4) provide for the division of assets and liabilities | ||
| between or among the new districts. | ||
| (g) On or before the 30th day after the date of adoption of | ||
| an order dividing the district, the district shall file the order | ||
| with the commission and record the order in the real property | ||
| records of each county in which the district is located. | ||
| (h) Any new district created by the division of the district | ||
| shall hold a confirmation and directors' election as required by | ||
| Section 7946A.0103. If the voters of a new district do not confirm | ||
| the creation of the new district, the assets, obligations, | ||
| territory, and governance of the new district revert to the | ||
| original district. | ||
| (i) If the creation of the new district is confirmed, the | ||
| new district shall provide the election date and results to the | ||
| commission. | ||
| (j) Municipal consent to the creation of the district and to | ||
| the inclusion of land in the district granted under Section | ||
| 7946A.0104 acts as municipal consent to the creation of any new | ||
| district created by the division of the district and to the | ||
| inclusion of land in the new district. | ||
| (k) Any new district created by the division of the district | ||
| must hold an election as required by this chapter to obtain voter | ||
| approval before the district may impose a maintenance tax or issue | ||
| bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes. | ||
| ARTICLE 2. REPEALER | ||
| SECTION 2.01. The following sections of the Special | ||
| District Local Laws Code are repealed: | ||
| (1) Section 7945A.0306; | ||
| (2) Section 7946A.0306; | ||
| (3) Section 7951A.0306; and | ||
| (4) Section 8141.0307. | ||
| ARTICLE 3. TRANSITION AND EFFECTIVE DATE | ||
| SECTION 3.01. If this Act does not receive a two-thirds vote | ||
| of all the members elected to each house, Article 2 of this Act does | ||
| not take effect. | ||
| SECTION 3.02. 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. | ||
