Bill Text: TX HB2934 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a study by the Texas Department of Transportation on the use of municipal impact fees for roadway facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2934 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2934-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Romero, Jr. | H.B. No. 2934 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2934: | |||
| By: Canales | C.S.H.B. No. 2934 | ||
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| relating to a study by the Texas Department of Transportation on the | ||
| use of municipal impact fees for roadway facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 395, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 395.0115 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 395.0115. STUDY OF MUNICIPAL IMPACT FEES TO PAY FOR | ||
| ROADWAY FACILITIES. (a) The Texas Department of Transportation, | ||
| in consultation with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, shall | ||
| conduct a study to determine the feasibility of using municipal | ||
| impact fees to pay for roadway facilities that are necessary due to | ||
| municipal development. | ||
| (b) In conducting the study, the Texas Department of | ||
| Transportation must consider: | ||
| (1) the roadway facility needs of municipalities; | ||
| (2) the amount of debt incurred by municipalities for | ||
| roadway facilities; | ||
| (3) the practicability of adopting impact fees for | ||
| roadway facilities in a municipality's roadway plan, considering | ||
| costs associated with fee imposition and collection; | ||
| (4) the potential and known effects of the imposition | ||
| and collection of impact fees on local transportation needs; | ||
| (5) the potential and known effects of the imposition | ||
| and collection of impact fees on the municipality's debt; and | ||
| (6) the practicability and potential effects of | ||
| remitting five percent of a municipality's impact fees to the | ||
| department for the construction and maintenance of state highways | ||
| attributable to development in the municipality. | ||
| (c) From the results of the study the Texas Department of | ||
| Transportation shall determine: | ||
| (1) the population threshold of a municipality for | ||
| which the imposition and collection of impact fees for roadway | ||
| facilities in the municipality's roadway plan is administratively | ||
| feasible; | ||
| (2) viable alternatives to municipal impact fees in | ||
| municipalities where the imposition and collection of impact fees | ||
| is not administratively feasible; and | ||
| (3) to what extent, if any, the adoption of impact fees | ||
| would alleviate the debt burden of municipalities. | ||
| (d) The Texas Department of Transportation shall provide | ||
| the results of the study and the determinations under Subsection | ||
| (c) to the members of the legislature not later than September 1, | ||
| 2024. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2023. | ||
