Bill Text: TX SB351 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 351 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the powers and duties of the Willow Point Municipal Utility District of Fort Bend and Waller Counties; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB351 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB351-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 351




	AN ACT
	relating to the powers and duties of the Willow Point Municipal
	Utility District of Fort Bend and Waller Counties; providing
	authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subtitle F, Title 6, Special District Local Laws
	Code, is amended by adding Chapter 8413 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 8413. WILLOW POINT MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT OF
	FORT BEND AND WALLER COUNTIES
	SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
	Sec. 8413.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "district"
	means the Willow Point Municipal Utility District of Fort Bend and
	Waller Counties.
	Sec. 8413.002. NATURE OF DISTRICT. The district is a
	municipal utility district in Fort Bend and Waller Counties created
	under and essential to accomplish the purposes of Section 52(b)(3),
	Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
	Sec. 8413.003. MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT POWERS AND
	DUTIES. The district has the powers and duties provided by the
	general law of this state, including Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code,
	applicable to municipal utility districts created under Section 59,
	Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
	[Sections 8413.004-8413.050 reserved for expansion]
	SUBCHAPTER B. POWERS AND DUTIES
	Sec. 8413.051. ROAD PROJECTS. (a) The district may
	construct, acquire, improve, maintain, or operate macadamized,
	graveled, or paved roads or turnpikes, or improvements in aid of
	those roads or turnpikes, inside the district.
	(b) A road project must meet all applicable construction
	standards, zoning and subdivision requirements, and regulations
	of:
	(1) each municipality in whose corporate limits or
	extraterritorial jurisdiction the district is located; and
	(2) each county in which the district is located.
	(c) The district may not undertake a road project unless
	each municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial
	jurisdiction the district is located consents by resolution.
	Sec. 8413.052. COMPLIANCE WITH MUNICIPAL CONSENT
	RESOLUTIONS. The district shall comply with all applicable
	requirements of any resolution, adopted by the governing body of a
	municipality, that consented to the creation of the district or to
	the inclusion of land in the district.
	[Sections 8413.053-8413.100 reserved for expansion]
	SUBCHAPTER C. GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
	Sec. 8413.101. TAX TO REPAY BONDS FOR ROAD PROJECTS. The
	district may impose a tax to pay the principal of or interest on
	bonds issued under Section 8413.151.
	[Sections 8413.102-8413.150 reserved for expansion]
	SUBCHAPTER D. BONDS
	Sec. 8413.151. AUTHORITY TO ISSUE BONDS AND OTHER
	OBLIGATIONS FOR ROAD PROJECTS. (a) The district may issue bonds
	or other obligations as provided by Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code,
	to finance the construction, maintenance, or operation of projects
	under Section 8413.051.
	(b) The district may not issue bonds or other obligations
	secured wholly or partly by ad valorem taxation to finance projects
	authorized by Section 8413.051 unless the issuance is approved by a
	vote of a two-thirds majority of the voters in the district or of
	the defined areas to be benefited by the project as provided by
	Subchapter J, Chapter 54, Water Code, voting at an election called
	for that purpose. The simple majority vote approval required by
	Section 54.808(a), Water Code, does not apply to an election under
	this subsection.
	(c) Bonds or other obligations issued or incurred to finance
	projects authorized by Section 8413.051 may not exceed one-fourth
	of the assessed value of the real property in the district or the
	defined area as provided by Subchapter J, Chapter 54, Water Code.
	SECTION 2. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
	introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
	Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
	copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
	officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
	under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
	Government Code.
	(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
	submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
	Environmental Quality.
	(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
	its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
	lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
	representatives within the required time.
	(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
	state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
	to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
	and accomplished.
	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, 2013.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 351 passed the Senate on
	March 13, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 22, 2013, by the
	following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 351 passed the House, with
	amendment, on May 17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 134,
	Nays 0, two present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor