83R3516 SGA-F
By: J. Davis of Harris H.B. No. 2987
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain water districts that do not provide water and
sanitary sewer service to certain users in the districts'
territory.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 43.0761(a) and (b), Local Government
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) A district existing on September 1, 1997, that, within
10 years after the date of its creation, has not provided water and
sanitary sewer utility service from its facilities to all household
users in its territory shall:
(1) provide water and sanitary sewer utility service
from its facilities to all household users in its territory not
later than September 1, 1998; or
(2) for that part of the district for which the
district does not provide water and sanitary sewer utility service,
and for which one or more of a municipality or conservation and
reclamation district created as a governmental agency and body
politic and corporate under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas
Constitution, does provide all or part of those services, provide
for periodic payments, as described by Subsection (b), by the
district to the municipality or governmental agency that provides
the services.
(b) Payments made under Subsection (a)(2) are operation and
maintenance expenses of the district and shall be made at least
every three months. The total annual amount of the payments may not
exceed the lesser of:
(1) the total aggregate annual costs to any [cost to
the] municipality or governmental agency of providing the water and
sanitary sewer utility service, including both capital and
operation and maintenance costs and expenses; or
(2) the total annual amount of maintenance and
operation taxes and debt service or bond taxes paid to the district
by the owners of taxable property within the district that receives
water and sanitary sewer utility service from one or more
municipalities or governmental agencies [the municipality].
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, 2013.