BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 3111 By: Craddick Urban Affairs Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, certain municipalities that have not adopted an impact fee have the ability to allow a landowner or developer to connect to a capital improvement and pay a fee for doing so. This ability helps to pay for needed water and sewer lines, street and roadway facilities, and drainage improvements. Because of population growth, the statute determining which municipalities have this ability needs to be adjusted. H.B. 3111 seeks to make this adjustment, allowing the municipalities to continue to encourage orderly growth and development. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 3111 amends the Local Government Code to increase from 105,000 to 115,000, in a municipality that constitutes more than three-fourths of the population of the county in which the majority of the area of the municipality is located, the maximum population threshold under which provisions relating to adjoining landowner fees for financing capital improvements apply. EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2011.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 3111
By: Craddick
Urban Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 3111
By: Craddick
Urban Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, certain municipalities that have not adopted an impact fee have the ability to allow a landowner or developer to connect to a capital improvement and pay a fee for doing so. This ability helps to pay for needed water and sewer lines, street and roadway facilities, and drainage improvements. Because of population growth, the statute determining which municipalities have this ability needs to be adjusted. H.B. 3111 seeks to make this adjustment, allowing the municipalities to continue to encourage orderly growth and development.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 3111 amends the Local Government Code to increase from 105,000 to 115,000, in a municipality that constitutes more than three-fourths of the population of the county in which the majority of the area of the municipality is located, the maximum population threshold under which provisions relating to adjoining landowner fees for financing capital improvements apply.
EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2011.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Currently, certain municipalities that have not adopted an impact fee have the ability to allow a landowner or developer to connect to a capital improvement and pay a fee for doing so. This ability helps to pay for needed water and sewer lines, street and roadway facilities, and drainage improvements. Because of population growth, the statute determining which municipalities have this ability needs to be adjusted. H.B. 3111 seeks to make this adjustment, allowing the municipalities to continue to encourage orderly growth and development.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 3111 amends the Local Government Code to increase from 105,000 to 115,000, in a municipality that constitutes more than three-fourths of the population of the county in which the majority of the area of the municipality is located, the maximum population threshold under which provisions relating to adjoining landowner fees for financing capital improvements apply.
EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2011.