Bill Text: TX HB2832 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of emergency services in the Bella Vista Municipal Utility District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-23 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB2832 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2832-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Dale, Workman | H.B. No. 2832 | |
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| relating to the provision of emergency services in the Bella Vista | ||
| Municipal Utility District. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle F, Title 6, Special District Local Laws | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Chapter 8437 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 8437. BELLA VISTA MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT | ||
| Sec. 8437.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "district" | ||
| means the Bella Vista Municipal Utility District. | ||
| Sec. 8437.002. REMOVAL OF AREA FROM EMERGENCY SERVICES | ||
| DISTRICT. (a) This section applies only to: | ||
| (1) a municipality with a population of less than | ||
| 100,000; and | ||
| (2) an emergency services district operating under | ||
| Chapter 775, Health and Safety Code, in which the district is wholly | ||
| or partly located. | ||
| (b) If the district enters into a strategic partnership | ||
| agreement with a municipality under Section 43.0751, Local | ||
| Government Code, that includes the provision of fire-fighting | ||
| services as defined by Section 49.351(k), Water Code, and the | ||
| district has completed all other procedures necessary for a | ||
| limited-purpose annexation by that municipality, an emergency | ||
| services district shall disannex the territory of the district to | ||
| be served by the municipality under the agreement in accordance | ||
| with Subsection (c). | ||
| (c) The territory remains part of the emergency services | ||
| district until the secretary of the emergency services district | ||
| board receives from the district notice that the requirements of | ||
| Subsection (b) have been met. On receipt of the notice, the board | ||
| shall immediately change its records to show that the district | ||
| territory has been disannexed from the emergency services district | ||
| and shall cease to provide further services to the residents of that | ||
| territory. | ||
| (d) Sections 775.022(b), (c), (d), (e), and (f), Health and | ||
| Safety Code, apply to a disannexation under this section, as if the | ||
| disannexation occurred under the provisions of Section 775.022(a), | ||
| Health and Safety Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. (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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
