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1		-	By: Fallon (Senate Sponsor - Estes) H.B. No. 3099
2		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 24, 2015;
3		-	May 24, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
4		-	Administration; May 26, 2015, reported favorably by the following
5		-	vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 26, 2015, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
	1	+	H.B. No. 3099
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9		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	4		AN ACT
11	5		relating to the effect of municipal annexation of the Venable Ranch
12	6		Municipal Utility District No. 1 of Denton County; affecting the
13	7		authority to impose a tax.
14	8		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	9		SECTION 1. Section 8469.251(a), Special District Local Laws
16	10		Code, is amended to read as follows:
17	11		(a) Notwithstanding any other law, if all of the territory
18	12		of the district or a district created by the division of the
19	13		district is annexed by the city into the corporate limits of the
20	14		city [before the date of the election held to confirm the creation
21	15		of the district and the district is confirmed at that election], the
22	16		district may not be dissolved and continues in existence following
23	17		annexation until:
24	18		(1) water, sanitary sewer, and drainage improvements
25	19		and roads have been constructed to serve at least 90 percent of the
26	20		territory of the district capable of development; or
27	21		(2) the board adopts a resolution consenting to the
28	22		dissolution of the district.
29	23		SECTION 2. Section 8469.251(b), Special District Local Laws
30	24		Code, as added by Chapter 1244 (S.B. 1877), Acts of the 83rd
31	25		Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows:
32	26		(b) After annexation by the city:
33	27		(1) [the district may not impose an ad valorem tax;
34	28		[(2)] the district may impose a special assessment in
35	29		the manner provided by Subchapter F, Chapter 375, Local Government
36	30		Code; and
37	31		(2) [(3)] Section 375.161, Local Government Code,
38	32		does not apply to the district.
39	33		SECTION 3. Section 8469.251(b), Special District Local Laws
40	34		Code, as added by Chapter 1308 (H.B. 3914), Acts of the 83rd
41	35		Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is redesignated as Section
42	36		8469.251(c) to read as follows:
43	37		(c) [(b)] Notwithstanding Section 54.016(f)(2), Water
44	38		Code, an allocation agreement between the city and the district
45	39		that provides for the allocation of the taxes or revenues of the
46	40		district and the city following the date of inclusion of the
47	41		district's territory in the corporate limits of the city may
48	42		provide that the total annual ad valorem taxes collected by the city
49	43		and the district from taxable property within the city's corporate
50	44		limits may exceed the city's ad valorem tax on that property.
51	45		SECTION 4. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
52	46		introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
53	47		Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
54	48		copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
55	49		officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
56	50		under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
57	51		Government Code.
58	52		(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
59	53		submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
60	54		Environmental Quality.
61	55		(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
62	56		its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
63	57		lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
64	58		representatives within the required time.
65	59		(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
66	60		state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
67	61		to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
68	62		and accomplished.
69	63		SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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	64	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	65	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	66	+	I certify that H.B. No. 3099 was passed by the House on May
	67	+	22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 1, 2 present, not
	68	+	voting.
	69	+	______________________________
	70	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	71	+	I certify that H.B. No. 3099 was passed by the Senate on May
	72	+	27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.
	73	+	______________________________
	74	+	Secretary of the Senate
	75	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	76	+	Date
	77	+	_____________________
	78	+	Governor