Bill Text: TX SB356 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and funding of the County Park Beautification and Improvement Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-02 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB356 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB356-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Hancock | S.B. No. 356 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed January 26, 2015; January 26, 2015, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Administration; | ||
| February 2, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, | ||
| Nays 0; February 2, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and funding of | ||
| the County Park Beautification and Improvement Program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 10, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 328 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 328. COUNTY PARK BEAUTIFICATION AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 328.001. PURPOSE; CREATION. It is the intent of the | ||
| legislature that each county dedicating land for use as county | ||
| parks be encouraged to beautify and improve those parks through | ||
| measures including but not limited to improvements in or additions | ||
| to lighting, directional and educational signs, litter abatement | ||
| strategies, and landscaping and landscape maintenance policies. In | ||
| furtherance of these goals, the County Park Beautification and | ||
| Improvement Program is established. | ||
| Sec. 328.002. IMPLEMENTATION. The commissioners court of a | ||
| county may by majority vote elect to participate in the program. On | ||
| such election, the commissioners court shall designate one person | ||
| in the division of the county government responsible for the care | ||
| and maintenance of the county parks as the coordinator for the | ||
| program. The coordinator may solicit advice and assistance from | ||
| state and county agencies and private organizations in developing | ||
| and implementing the program. | ||
| Sec. 328.003. REPORT; ADOPTION. The coordinator shall | ||
| report to the commissioners court the coordinator's findings and | ||
| shall recommend an implementation strategy to the commissioners | ||
| court. The commissioners court may reject or adopt the | ||
| implementation strategy. If the commissioners court rejects the | ||
| strategy, it shall specify to the coordinator the reasons for such | ||
| rejection, and the coordinator shall develop a new implementation | ||
| strategy to present to the commissioners court within six months of | ||
| the rejection. On adoption of an implementation strategy, the | ||
| commissioners court may fund the program as provided in Section | ||
| 328.004. | ||
| Sec. 328.004. FUNDING. The commissioners court of a county | ||
| electing to participate in the program may solicit and accept | ||
| bequests, donations, grants, and other money, goods, and services | ||
| from federal, state, and private sources to finance and further the | ||
| goals of the program but may not levy any tax or receive any | ||
| legislative appropriation to fund such participation. The state is | ||
| not liable for debts or other obligations incurred by a county in | ||
| implementing or planning to implement the program under this | ||
| chapter. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
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