Bill Text: TX SB621 | 2009-2010 | 81st Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and funding of the County Park Beautification and Improvement Program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-04 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB621 Detail]

Download: Texas-2009-SB621-Comm_Sub.html

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� By:�Williams� S.B.�No.�621
� �������(In the Senate�-�Filed February�2,�2009; February�2,�2009,
� read first time and referred to Committee on Administration;
� February�4,�2009, reported favorably by the following vote:��Yeas
� 5, Nays 0; February�4,�2009, sent to printer.)

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� A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
� AN ACT
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� relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and funding of
� the County Park Beautification and Improvement Program.
� �������BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
� �������SECTION�1.��Subtitle B, Title 10, Local Government Code, is
� amended by adding Chapter 328 to read as follows:
� CHAPTER 328. COUNTY PARK BEAUTIFICATION AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
� �������Sec.�328.001.��PURPOSE; CREATION. It is the intent of the
� legislature that each county dedicating land for use as county
� parks be encouraged to beautify and improve those parks through
� measures including but not limited to improvements in or additions
� to lighting, directional and educational signs, litter abatement
� strategies, and landscaping and landscape maintenance policies. In
� furtherance of these goals, the County Park Beautification and
� Improvement Program is established.
� �������Sec.�328.002.��IMPLEMENTATION. The commissioners court of a
� county may by majority vote elect to participate in the program. On
� such election, the commissioners court shall designate one person
� in the division of the county government responsible for the care
� and maintenance of the county parks as the coordinator for the
� program. The coordinator may solicit advice and assistance from
� state and county agencies and private organizations in developing
� and implementing the program.
� �������Sec.�328.003.��REPORT; ADOPTION. The coordinator shall
� report to the commissioners court the coordinator's findings and
� shall recommend an implementation strategy to the commissioners
� court. The commissioners court may reject or adopt the
� implementation strategy. If the commissioners court rejects the
� strategy, it shall specify to the coordinator the reasons for such
� rejection, and the coordinator shall develop a new implementation
� strategy to present to the commissioners court within six months of
� the rejection. On adoption of an implementation strategy, the
� commissioners court may fund the program as provided in Section
� 328.004.
� �������Sec.�328.004.��FUNDING. The commissioners court of a county
� electing to participate in the program may solicit and accept
� bequests, donations, grants, and other money, goods, and services
� from federal, state, and private sources to finance and further the
� goals of the program but may not levy any tax or receive any
� legislative appropriation to fund such participation. The state is
� not liable for debts or other obligations incurred by a county in
� implementing or planning to implement the program under this
� chapter.
� �������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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
� legislative session.
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