By: Workman (Senate Sponsor - Watson) H.B. No. 3666
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 18, 2015;
May 18, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 22, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
May 22, 2015, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3666 By: Huffines
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the withdrawal of the territory of certain emergency
services districts from the territory of a metropolitan rapid
transit authority.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 451.601, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 451.601. UNIT OF ELECTION DEFINED. In this
subchapter, "unit of election" means:
(1) a municipality, including a principal
municipality; [or]
(2) an unincorporated area designated by a
commissioners court under Section 451.657 as a discrete unit for
the purposes of a confirmation election; or
(3) an emergency services district operating under
Chapter 775, Health and Safety Code, that:
(A) borders Lake Travis; and
(B) is located in or borders two municipalities
with a population of more than 45,000.
SECTION 2. Subchapter M, Chapter 451, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 451.618 to read as follows:
Sec. 451.618. WITHDRAWAL: ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR CERTAIN
EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICTS. (a) An emergency services district
described by Section 451.601(3) may withdraw from an authority, in
addition to any other manner provided by law, by a vote of a
majority of the registered voters of the district voting at an
election on the question of withdrawing from the authority.
(b) The governing body of the emergency services district
shall call an election under this section if a petition requesting
that an election to withdraw from the authority be held is submitted
to the governing body and is signed by at least 10 percent of the
registered voters of the district on the date the petition is
submitted. To be counted for purposes of validating the petition, a
signature on the petition must have been inscribed not earlier than
the 120th day before the date the petition is submitted to the
governing body.
(c) The governing body, before the 31st day after the date
the petition is submitted to the governing body, shall determine
whether a petition under this section is valid, and if the governing
body fails to act on the petition before the expiration of that
period, the petition is valid.
(d) Sections 451.601, 451.607, 451.608, 451.609, 451.611,
451.612(a), and 451.613 apply to the withdrawal of an emergency
services district under this section.
(e) An election may not be called under this section to be
held on a date earlier than the first anniversary of the date of the
most recent election held under this section.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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