Bill Text: TX SB887 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to use funds collected from an impact fee to construct or install a safety improvement to a roadway facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - Filed [SB887 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB887-Introduced.html
| 89R10016 JBD-F | ||
| By: Eckhardt | S.B. No. 887 | |
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| relating to the authority of a municipality to use funds collected | ||
| from an impact fee to construct or install a safety improvement to a | ||
| roadway facility. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 395.012, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) Subject to Section 395.0121, a municipality may use | ||
| funds collected from an impact fee imposed under this subchapter to | ||
| construct or install a safety improvement to a roadway facility. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 395, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 395.0121 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 395.0121. IMPACT FEE FOR SAFETY IMPROVEMENT TO ROADWAY | ||
| FACILITY. (a) A municipality may use funds collected from an | ||
| impact fee imposed under this subchapter to construct or install a | ||
| safety improvement to a roadway facility as authorized by Section | ||
| 395.012(f) only if the municipality complies with the requirements | ||
| of this section. | ||
| (b) A municipality may only use funds collected from an | ||
| impact fee to construct or install a safety improvement to a roadway | ||
| facility if: | ||
| (1) the municipality's capital improvement plan: | ||
| (A) does not indicate a need for additional | ||
| capacity on the facility; and | ||
| (B) identifies the need for the improvement; and | ||
| (2) a transportation study for a new development | ||
| indicates no need for additional capacity on the facility. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
