Bill Text: TX HB1045 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the dissolution of a special utility district after the transfer of all obligations and services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Left pending in committee [HB1045 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1045-Introduced.html

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85R106 GRM-D
By: Wilson H.B. No. 1045

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the dissolution of a special utility district after the
transfer of all obligations and services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 65, Water Code, is amended
by adding Section 65.7271 to read as follows:
Sec. 65.7271. DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT FOLLOWING TRANSFER OF
ALL OBLIGATIONS AND SERVICES. The board may propose to dissolve the
district and issue notice of a hearing on the proposed dissolution
if the district's:
(1) certificate of convenience has been transferred to
another political subdivision; and
(2) assets and liabilities have been transferred to or
assumed by another political subdivision.
SECTION 2. Section 65.730, Water Code, is amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 65.730. BOARD'S ORDER TO DISSOLVE DISTRICT. (a) For a
dissolution hearing ordered under Section 65.727, if [If] the board
unanimously determines from the evidence that the best interests of
the persons and property in the district will be served by
dissolving the district, the board shall enter the appropriate
findings and order in its records dissolving the district.
Otherwise the board shall enter its order providing that the
district has not been dissolved.
(b) For a dissolution hearing ordered under Section
65.7271, if two-thirds or more of the members of the board vote to
dissolve the district, the board shall enter the appropriate
findings and order in its records dissolving the district.
Otherwise the board shall enter its order providing that the
district has not been dissolved.
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, 2017.