By: Gonzalez H.B. No. 1289
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the exemption of certain property from municipal
  drainage service charges and from related ordinances, resolutions,
  and rules.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 552.053(e), Local Government Code, as
  added by Chapters 278 (S.B. 874) and 539 (S.B. 1522), Acts of the
  81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted and amended
  to read as follows:
         (e)  The following property is exempt from drainage charges
  under Section 552.047 and all ordinances, resolutions, and rules
  adopted under this subchapter:
               (1)  property owned by a county in which a municipality
  described by Section 552.044(8)(A) is located;
               (2)  property owned by a school district located wholly
  or partly in a municipality described by Section 552.044(8)(A); and
               (3)  property owned by a municipal housing authority of
  a municipality described by Section 552.044(8)(A).
         SECTION 2.  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
  over another Act of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011,
  relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
  codes.
         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, 2011.