By: Davis, Nelson S.B. No. 575
(In the Senate - Filed January 28, 2009; February 23, 2009,
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; March 30, 2009, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 30, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the time for dissolution of crime control and
prevention districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 363.301, Local
Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The district is dissolved on the first uniform election
date that occurs after the fifth anniversary of the date the
district began to levy taxes for district purposes if the district
has not held a continuation or dissolution referendum.
(b) The district is dissolved on the first uniform election
date that occurs after the fifth anniversary of the date of the most
recent continuation or dissolution referendum.
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, 2009.
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