Bill Text: TX HB2730 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the adoption and amendment of an annual budget by certain emergency services districts.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB2730 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2730-Comm_Sub.html
By: Rosenthal, Orr (Senate Sponsor - Bettencourt) | H.B. No. 2730 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2023; | ||
May 5, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Local | ||
Government; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the adoption and amendment of an annual budget by | ||
certain emergency services districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 775, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 775.079 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 775.079. ADOPTION AND AMENDMENT OF ANNUAL BUDGET IN | ||
CERTAIN DISTRICTS. (a) This section applies only to a district | ||
located wholly in a county with a population of more than three | ||
million. | ||
(b) The board shall prepare and adopt the district's annual | ||
budget in the manner provided by this section. | ||
(c) The board, after notice, shall hold an open meeting to | ||
consider the proposed budget for the following fiscal year. | ||
Adoption of the budget may occur at the same meeting at which the | ||
board takes final action to set the tax rate if the board complies | ||
with Section 775.074(d-1). | ||
(d) At least 72 hours before holding a meeting to adopt a | ||
proposed budget for the following fiscal year, the board shall post | ||
the proposed budget on the district's Internet website in the same | ||
location on the website that a proposed tax rate to be adopted is | ||
posted. | ||
(e) After the board adopts the budget, the board may not | ||
amend the budget except as provided by Subsections (f) and (g). | ||
(f) The board, after notice, may amend the budget after its | ||
initial adoption only at an open meeting. The board shall: | ||
(1) not later than 72 hours before the meeting, post | ||
the proposed amendment on the district's Internet website in the | ||
same location on the website that a proposed tax rate to be adopted | ||
is posted; and | ||
(2) include in the notice of the meeting: | ||
(A) the following statement: "The Board of the | ||
(name of county) Emergency Services District No. (district number) | ||
will consider an amendment to the district's adopted budget. The | ||
public is encouraged to review the proposed amendment to the budget | ||
posted on the district's website and to attend the meeting to offer | ||
comments regarding the proposed amendment. (district Internet | ||
website address)"; and | ||
(B) the following agenda items: | ||
(i) "Public comment on the proposed | ||
amendment to the budget"; and | ||
(ii) "Action to adopt or reject the | ||
proposed amendment to the budget". | ||
(g) After allowing comments from the public regarding the | ||
proposed amendment, the board may amend the budget only if three or | ||
more members of the board vote in favor of adopting the proposed | ||
amendment. | ||
(h) The board shall give notice of a meeting held under this | ||
section in the manner provided by Chapter 551, Government Code, and | ||
this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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