Bill Text: TX HB4639 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the powers and duties of the Conroe Municipal Management District No. 1, including the power to undertake and finance projects through taxes and bonds as a levee improvement district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-17 - Referred to Local Government [HB4639 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4639-Introduced.html
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| By: Bell of Montgomery | H.B. No. 4639 | |
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| relating to the powers and duties of the Conroe Municipal | ||
| Management District No. 1, including the power to undertake and | ||
| finance projects through taxes and bonds as a levee improvement | ||
| district. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle C, Title 4, Special District Local Laws | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Chapter 3998 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 3998. CONROE MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1 | ||
| SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS | ||
| Sec. 3998.0101. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Board" means the district's board of directors. | ||
| (2) "Commission" means the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality. | ||
| (3) "Director" means a board member. | ||
| (4) "District" means the Conroe Municipal Management | ||
| District No. 1 created as a municipal management district by an | ||
| order of the commission on April 21, 2015. | ||
| SUBCHAPTER B. BOARD OF DIRECTORS | ||
| Sec. 3998.0201. COMPENSATION. A director is entitled to | ||
| receive fees of office and reimbursement for actual expenses as | ||
| provided by Section 49.060, Water Code. Sections 375.069 and | ||
| 375.070, Local Government Code, do not apply to the board. | ||
| SUBCHAPTER C. POWERS AND DUTIES | ||
| Sec. 3998.0301. MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT DISTRICT POWERS AND | ||
| DUTIES. (a) The district has the powers and duties provided by the | ||
| general law of this state, including Chapter 375, Local Government | ||
| Code, and Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code, applicable to municipal | ||
| management districts created under Section 59, Article XVI, and | ||
| Sections 52 and 52-a, Article III, Texas Constitution. | ||
| (b) The district has the powers and duties necessary to | ||
| accomplish the purposes for which the district is created. | ||
| Sec. 3998.0302. LEVEE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT POWERS AND | ||
| DUTIES. (a) The district has the powers and duties provided by the | ||
| general law of this state, including Chapters 49 and 57, Water Code, | ||
| applicable to levee improvement districts created under Section 59, | ||
| Article XVI, Texas Constitution. | ||
| (b) The district may: | ||
| (1) reclaim land in the district; and | ||
| (2) construct works, facilities, and improvements | ||
| necessary to accomplish that purpose. | ||
| (c) The district may finance and contract for the | ||
| construction of a fill project or for the acquisition of land for a | ||
| fill project in the district, including drainage and reclamation. | ||
| (d) For the district's exercise of a power of or performance | ||
| of a duty of a levee improvement district as provided by Subsection | ||
| (c), the commission shall consider the district to be a levee | ||
| improvement district. | ||
| 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 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, 2021. | ||
