Bill Text: TX HB1778 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of the assets of and the dissolution of the Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-14 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1778 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1778-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Howard of Fort Bend, Reynolds | H.B. No. 1778 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1778: | |||
| By: King of Zavala | C.S.H.B. No. 1778 | ||
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| relating to the transfer of the assets of and the dissolution of the | ||
| Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: | ||
| (1) "City" means the City of Sugar Land. | ||
| (2) "District" means the Fort Bend County Water | ||
| Control and Improvement District No. 1. | ||
| SECTION 2. TRANSFER OF ASSETS AND DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT. | ||
| (a) On the date the city council of the city passes a resolution | ||
| accepting the assets, debts, and contractual rights and obligations | ||
| of the district: | ||
| (1) all assets, debts, and contractual rights and | ||
| obligations of the district are property of the city; and | ||
| (2) the district is dissolved. | ||
| (b) On the date of the dissolution of the district, and | ||
| notwithstanding Section 51.790, Water Code, ownership of | ||
| Certificate of Adjudication No. 11-5170, including any attachments | ||
| or amendments to the certificate, transfers to the city. | ||
| (c) The city shall notify the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality of the dissolution of the district and the | ||
| transfer of Certificate of Adjudication No. 11-5170 to the city. | ||
| (d) On receipt of notice under Subsection (c) of this | ||
| section, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall note | ||
| in its records that Certificate of Adjudication No. 11-5170 is | ||
| owned by the city. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality | ||
| shall, as a ministerial act, transfer the certificate to the city | ||
| without further application, notice, or hearing. A person, party, | ||
| or entity does not have any right of protest, objection, or | ||
| administrative review of the transfer prescribed by this Act. | ||
| (e) The transfer of Certificate of Adjudication No. 11-5170 | ||
| to the city does not affect or impair the priority, extent, | ||
| validity, or purpose of the certificate. | ||
| SECTION 3. EXPIRATION OF ACT. This Act expires September 1, | ||
| 2013. | ||
| SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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. | ||
