Bill Text: TX SB991 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to providing road powers to the Wood Trace Municipal Utility District No. 1, of Montgomery County, Texas; providing authority to issue bonds.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-19 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB991 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB991-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Creighton | S.B. No. 991 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2017; March 6, 2017, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental | ||
| Relations; April 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
| vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 19, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to providing road powers to the Wood Trace Municipal | ||
| Utility District No. 1, of Montgomery County, Texas; providing | ||
| authority to issue bonds. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 8228.003(c), Special District Local Laws | ||
| Code, as effective April 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) The creation of the district is essential to accomplish | ||
| the purposes of: | ||
| (1) a municipal utility district as provided by | ||
| general law and Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution; and | ||
| (2) Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, that | ||
| relate to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, | ||
| or maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or | ||
| improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 8228, Special District | ||
| Local Laws Code, as effective April 1, 2017, is amended by adding | ||
| Sections 8228.102 and 8228.103 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 8228.102. AUTHORITY FOR ROAD PROJECTS. Under Section | ||
| 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, the district may design, | ||
| acquire, construct, finance, issue bonds for, improve, operate, | ||
| maintain, and convey to this state, a county, or a municipality for | ||
| operation and maintenance macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or | ||
| improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads. | ||
| Sec. 8228.103. ROAD STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS. (a) A | ||
| road project must meet all applicable construction standards, | ||
| zoning and subdivision requirements, and regulations of each | ||
| municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial | ||
| jurisdiction the road project is located. | ||
| (b) If a road project is not located in the corporate limits | ||
| or extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality, the road | ||
| project must meet all applicable construction standards, | ||
| subdivision requirements, and regulations of each county in which | ||
| the road project is located. | ||
| (c) If the state will maintain and operate the road, the | ||
| Texas Transportation Commission must approve the plans and | ||
| specifications of the road project. | ||
| SECTION 3. Chapter 8228, Special District Local Laws Code, | ||
| as effective April 1, 2017, is amended by adding Subchapter D to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER D. BONDS | ||
| Sec. 8228.151. BONDS FOR ROAD PROJECTS. At the time of | ||
| issuance, the total principal amount of bonds or other obligations | ||
| issued or incurred to finance road projects and payable from ad | ||
| valorem taxes may not exceed one-fourth of the assessed value of the | ||
| real property in the district. | ||
| SECTION 4. (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 5. 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, 2017. | ||
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