| 1 | 1 | | By: Callegari (Senate Sponsor - Garcia) H.B. No. 2153 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013; |
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| 3 | 3 | | May 10, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | 4 | | Agriculture, Rural Affairs, and Homeland Security; May 17, 2013, |
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| 5 | 5 | | reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; |
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| 6 | 6 | | May 17, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 8 | 8 | | |
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| 9 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 11 | | relating to the abolition of wind erosion conservation districts. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Chapter 202, Agriculture Code, is repealed. |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 2. (a) The county judge of each county in this state |
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| 15 | 15 | | in which a wind erosion conservation district is located or the |
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| 16 | 16 | | judge's designee shall proceed with the dissolution of the district |
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| 17 | 17 | | as soon as possible. |
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| 18 | 18 | | (b) The county judge or the judge's designee shall conduct |
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| 19 | 19 | | an inventory of the assets of the wind erosion conservation |
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| 20 | 20 | | district and determine the debt owed by the district. |
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| 21 | 21 | | (c) The county judge or the judge's designee shall control |
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| 22 | 22 | | and administer the property, funds, and other assets and the debts |
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| 23 | 23 | | of the wind erosion conservation district until all assets have |
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| 24 | 24 | | been disposed of and all debts, including outstanding bonds, of the |
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| 25 | 25 | | district have been paid or settled. |
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| 26 | 26 | | (d) After the county judge or the judge's designee has paid |
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| 27 | 27 | | all debts and has disposed of all assets of the wind erosion |
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| 28 | 28 | | conservation district as prescribed by this section, the county |
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| 29 | 29 | | judge or the judge's designee shall: |
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| 30 | 30 | | (1) transfer to the county in which the district is |
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| 31 | 31 | | located all net proceeds of the disposal of the assets; and |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2) file a written report with the commissioners court |
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| 33 | 33 | | of the county setting forth a summary of the county judge's or the |
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| 34 | 34 | | judge's designee's actions in dissolving the district. |
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| 35 | 35 | | (e) Not later than the 10th day after the date the |
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| 36 | 36 | | commissioners court receives the report under Subsection (d)(2) of |
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| 37 | 37 | | this section and determines that the requirements of this section |
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| 38 | 38 | | have been fulfilled, the commissioners court shall enter an order |
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| 39 | 39 | | dissolving the district. |
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| 40 | 40 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 41 | 41 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 42 | 42 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 43 | 43 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 44 | 44 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 45 | 45 | | * * * * * |
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