Bill Text: TX HB961 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the exemption of certain school district property from certain infrastructure fees charged for the control of excess water or storm water.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-13 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB961 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB961-Comm_Sub.html

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84R4669 PAM-D
By: Farias, Rodriguez of Bexar, H.B. No. 961
Martinez Fischer, Larson, Gutierrez

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the exemption of certain school district property from
certain infrastructure fees charged for the control of excess water
or storm water.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 580.003, Local Government Code, as
redesignated by Chapter 885 (H.B. 2278), Acts of the 80th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, and amended by Chapters 1356
(H.B. 462) and 1430 (S.B. 3), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2007, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
Sec. 580.003. EXEMPTIONS OF CERTAIN PROPERTY FROM
INFRASTRUCTURE FEES. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), no
county, municipality, or utility district may collect from a state
agency, [or] a public or private institution of higher education,
or a school district described by Subsection (c) any fee charged for
the development or maintenance of programs or facilities for the
control of excess water or storm water.
(b) A municipality with a population of 25,000 or less and
through which the Bosque River runs may collect from a state agency
or public institution of higher education a fee charged for the
development or maintenance of programs or [of] facilities for the
control of excess water or storm water.
(c) This section applies only to a school district located
in a county with a population of more than 1.5 million that contains
a municipality in which at least 75 percent of the county's
population resides.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act does not
affect fees imposed before the effective date of this Act, and the
law in effect before that date is continued in effect for the
purpose of the liability for and collection of those fees.
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, 2015.