Bill Text: TX SB660 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 660 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the collection, receipt, and use of assessments and other types of revenue for certain public improvement projects in certain municipalities.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB660 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB660-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 660




	AN ACT
	relating to the collection, receipt, and use of assessments and
	other types of revenue for certain public improvement projects in
	certain municipalities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 372.0035, Local Government Code, is
	amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
	(d) A municipality that undertakes a project under this
	section may:
	(1) adopt procedures for the collection of assessments
	under this chapter that are consistent with the municipality's
	procedures for the collection of a hotel occupancy tax under
	Chapter 351, Tax Code; and
	(2) pursue remedies for the failure to pay an
	assessment under this chapter that are available to the
	municipality for failure to pay a hotel occupancy tax under Chapter
	351, Tax Code.
	SECTION 2. Section 351.106, Tax Code, is amended by adding
	Subsection (c) to read as follows:
	(c) A municipality to which this section applies:
	(1) is entitled to receive in the same manner all funds
	and revenue that a municipality to which Section 351.1015 applies
	may receive under that section; and
	(2) may pledge the funds and revenue for the payment of
	obligations incurred for the construction of qualified projects
	authorized under that section.
	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. 660 passed the Senate on
	April 4, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 20, 2013, by the
	following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 660 passed the House, with
	amendment, on May 9, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 132,
	Nays 0, two present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor