By: West S.B. No. 660
(Anchia)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to assessment collection in certain public improvement
districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 372.0035, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) A municipality that undertakes a project under this
section may:
(1) adopt procedures for the collection of assessments
under this chapter that are consistent with the municipality's
procedures for the collection of a hotel occupancy tax under
Chapter 351, Tax Code; and
(2) pursue remedies for the failure to pay an
assessment under this chapter that are available to the
municipality for failure to pay a hotel occupancy tax under Chapter
351, Tax Code.
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.