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1	1	84R2772 JSL-D
2	2	By: Dutton H.B. No. 2345
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the boundaries and territory of the Near Northside
8	8	Management District.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 358, Acts of the 82nd
11	11	Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, is amended to read as follows:
12	12	Sec. 2. BOUNDARIES. The Near Northside Management District
13	13	[initially] includes all the territory contained in the following
14	14	area:
15	15	In Harris County, Texas, the territory enclosed by Loop 610 as the
16	16	north boundary, Lockwood Dr. as the east boundary, Buffalo Bayou
17	17	[Interstate 10] as the south boundary, and Jensen Dr. as the west
18	18	boundary.
19	19	SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 3905, Special District
20	20	Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 3905.009 to read as
21	21	follows:
22	22	Sec. 3905.009. OVERLAPPING TERRITORY. (a) If territory in
23	23	the district overlaps with the boundaries of another district
24	24	created before June 17, 2011, that has the powers of a district
25	25	created under Chapter 375, Local Government Code, the overlapping
26	26	territory is excluded from the territory of the district that was
27	27	created first, regardless of whether the territory overlapped on
28	28	June 17, 2011.
29	29	(b) The exclusion of territory under this section does not
30	30	diminish or impair the rights of the holders of any outstanding and
31	31	unpaid bonds, warrants, or other district obligations. The district
32	32	that was created first shall continue to impose fees, taxes, or
33	33	assessments, if any, on the excluded territory at the same rate
34	34	imposed on other territory in the district until the total amount of
35	35	fees, taxes, or assessments collected from the excluded territory
36	36	equals its pro rata share of the indebtedness of the district at the
37	37	time the territory was excluded. All fees, taxes, or assessments
38	38	collected in the excluded territory by the district that was
39	39	created first shall be applied to the payment of the excluded
40	40	territory's pro rata share of indebtedness. The owner of all or part
41	41	of the excluded territory at any time may pay in full the owner's
42	42	share of the excluded territory's pro rata share of the
43	43	indebtedness at the time the territory was excluded.
44	44	(c) If the district that was created first does not have any
45	45	outstanding and unpaid bonds, warrants, or other district
46	46	obligations, but imposes assessments under an assessment plan
47	47	adopted before May 1, 2015, the district may continue to impose
48	48	those assessments on the excluded territory at the same rate
49	49	imposed on other territory in the district to satisfy the
50	50	requirements of that assessment plan. All assessments collected in
51	51	the excluded territory by the district that was created first shall
52	52	be applied to satisfy the requirements of the assessment plan.
53	53	SECTION 3. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
54	54	introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
55	55	Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
56	56	copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
57	57	officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
58	58	under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
59	59	Government Code.
60	60	(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
61	61	submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
62	62	Environmental Quality.
63	63	(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
64	64	its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor,
65	65	lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives
66	66	within the required time.
67	67	(d) The general law relating to consent by political
68	68	subdivisions to the creation of districts with conservation,
69	69	reclamation, and road powers and the inclusion of land in those
70	70	districts has been complied with.
71	71	(e) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
72	72	state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
73	73	to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act have been
74	74	fulfilled and accomplished.
75	75	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
76	76	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
77	77	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
78	78	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
79	79	Act takes effect September 1, 2015.