Bill Text: TX SB900 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the Aldine Improvement District; providing authority to impose a tax.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB900 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB900-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 900

AN ACT
relating to the Aldine Improvement District; providing authority to
impose a tax.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 3817, Special District
Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows:
CHAPTER 3817. EAST ALDINE MANAGEMENT [IMPROVEMENT] DISTRICT
SECTION 2. Subdivision (2), Section 3817.001, Special
District Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows:
(2) "District" means the East Aldine Management
[Improvement] District.
SECTION 3. Section 3817.002, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3817.002. EAST ALDINE MANAGEMENT [IMPROVEMENT]
DISTRICT. The East Aldine Management [Improvement] District is a
special district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas
Constitution.
SECTION 4. Subsection (b), Section 3817.005, Special
District Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) The boundaries and field notes of the district
[contained in Section 1, Chapter 1433, Acts of the 77th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, enacting former Section
376.454, Local Government Code,] form a closure. A mistake in the
field notes or in copying the field notes in the legislative process
does not in any way affect the district's:
(1) organization, existence, or validity;
(2) right to issue any type of bond for a purpose for
which the district is created or to pay the principal of and
interest on the bond;
(3) right to impose or collect an assessment or tax; or
(4) legality or operation.
SECTION 5. Section 3817.154, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections
(e) and (f) to read as follows:
(a) The district may impose a sales and use tax if
authorized by a majority of the voters of the district voting at an
election called for that purpose. Revenue from the tax may be used
for any purpose for which [ad valorem tax] revenue of the district
may be used.
(e) The board may establish one or more areas in the
district as a special sales and use tax zone if the board finds that
a reasonable distinction exists that justifies a special sales and
use tax rate in the area. The special sales and use tax rate may be
different than the sales and use tax rate imposed in the rest of the
district if the special sales and use tax rate is approved by a
majority of the voters of the special sales and use tax zone at an
election held for that purpose. Subsections (b)-(d) apply to a
special sales and use tax imposed under this subsection in the same
manner as the sales and use tax imposed under Subsection (a).
(f) There are exempted from a special sales and use tax
imposed by the district under Subsection (e) the sale, production,
distribution, lease, or rental of, and the use, storage, or other
consumption within a special sales and use tax zone of, a taxable
item sold, leased, or rented by:
(1) a retail electric provider as defined by Section
31.002, Utilities Code;
(2) an electric utility or a power generation company
as defined by Section 31.002, Utilities Code;
(3) a gas utility as defined by Section 101.003 or
121.001, Utilities Code, or a person who owns pipelines used for the
transportation or sale of oil or gas or a product or constituent of
oil or gas;
(4) a person who owns pipelines used for the
transportation or sale of carbon dioxide;
(5) a telecommunications provider as defined by
Section 51.002, Utilities Code; or
(6) a cable service provider or video service provider
as defined by Section 66.002, Utilities Code.
SECTION 6. (a) The following territory is added to the
territory of the East Aldine Management District, formerly known as
the Aldine Improvement District:
Tract 1-BEGINNING at the northwestern corner of the boundary
of the East Aldine Management District at the north right of way of
Aldine Bender Road and the east boundary of Greater Greenspoint
Management District;
THENCE, northerly along the east boundary of Greater
Greenspoint Management District to the southern boundary of Greens
Parkway Municipal Utility District ("GPMUD");
THENCE, east along the southern boundary of GPMUD to the
point at which the GPMUD boundary turns north at the right of way of
Greens Road;
THENCE, continuing east along the north right of way of
Greens Road to the intersection of Greens Road and the City of
Houston full-purpose boundary line;
THENCE, south along the City of Houston full-purpose boundary
line, across Beltway 8 to the point at which the City of Houston
full-purpose boundary line intersects the northern boundary of East
Aldine Management District at Aldine Bender Road;
THENCE, west along the northern boundary line of East Aldine
Management District, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
Tract 2-BEGINNING at the point at which the northern boundary
line of the East Aldine Management District intersects the City of
Houston full-purpose boundary line on the east side of the right of
way of Aldine Bender Road;
THENCE, north along the City of Houston full-purpose boundary
line to the point at which the City of Houston full-purpose boundary
line turns east;
THENCE, generally east along the City of Houston full-purpose
boundary line to the point at which the City of Houston full-purpose
boundary line reaches the right of way of John F. Kennedy Boulevard,
then south along the same City of Houston full-purpose boundary
line to the right of way of Aldine Bender Road where it meets the
north boundary line of East Aldine Management District;
THENCE, west along the north boundary line of East Aldine
Management District, to the POINT OF BEGINNING.
Tract 3-BEGINNING at the point at which the western boundary
line of the East Aldine Management District intersects the north
easement of Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) drainage
ditch (#9 DD-7, P138-00-00 tributary 24.97 to Greens Bayou);
THENCE, westerly along the north easement of HCFCD drainage
ditch (#9 DD-7, P138-00-00 tributary 24.97 to Greens Bayou) to east
boundary of City of Houston full-purpose boundary line;
THENCE, south along east boundary of City of Houston
full-purpose boundary line, across HCFCD easement of drainage ditch
(#9 DD-7, P138-00-00 tributary 24.97 to Greens Bayou) to north
boundary of Colonial Hills Subdivision
THENCE, west along the north boundary of Colonial Hills
Subdivision to northwest corner of said subdivision;
THENCE, southerly along the west boundary of Colonial Hills
Subdivision to southwest corner of said subdivision;
THENCE east along the south boundary of Colonial Hills
Subdivision to southeast corner of said subdivision;
THENCE, north along the east boundary of Colonial Hills
Subdivision to northeast corner of said subdivision and south
easement of HCFCD drainage ditch (#9 DD-7, P138-00-00 tributary
24.97 to Greens Bayou);
THENCE easterly along the south easement of HCFCD drainage
ditch (#9 DD-7, P138-00-00 tributary 24.97 to Greens Bayou) to west
boundary of existing East Aldine Management District;
THENCE, north along west boundary of existing East Aldine
Management District, across easement of HCFCD drainage ditch (#9
DD-7, P138-00-00 tributary 24.97 to Greens Bayou), to the POINT OF
BEGINNING.
(b) The territory described by Subsection (a) of this
section does not include any territory, as of the effective date of
this Act, that:
(1) is in the City of Houston; or
(2) the City of Houston has annexed for limited
purposes under Section 43.0751 or Subchapter F, Chapter 43, Local
Government Code, except for the right-of-way of Greens Bayou.
(c) A change to a boundary described by Subsection (b) of
this section after the effective date of this Act does not change
the boundaries of the East Aldine Management District.
SECTION 7. (a) The legislature validates and confirms all
governmental acts and proceedings of the Aldine Improvement
District, now known as the East Aldine Management District, that
were taken before the effective date of this Act. An act or
proceeding may not be held invalid because the act or proceeding was
not in accordance with Chapter 3817, Special District Local Laws
Code, or other law.
(b) This section does not apply to any matter that on the
effective date of this Act:
(1) is involved in litigation if the litigation
ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final court
judgment; or
(2) has been held invalid by a final court judgment.
SECTION 8. A reference in law to the Aldine Improvement
District means the East Aldine Management District.
SECTION 9. (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,
lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives
within the required time.
(d) The general law relating to consent by political
subdivisions to the creation of districts with conservation,
reclamation, and road powers and the inclusion of land in those
districts has been complied with.
(e) 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 have been
fulfilled and accomplished.
SECTION 10. 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, 2011.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 900 passed the Senate on
April 7, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the
Senate concurred in House amendment on May 23, 2011, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 900 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142,
Nays 6, one present not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
______________________________
Governor