Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

Texas House Bill HB4342 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 04/26/2017

                            85R9720 JCG-F
 By: Coleman H.B. No. 4342


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to authorizing the East Downtown Management District to
 impose a tax, fee, or assessment on certain property.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 3808.157, Special District Local Laws
 Code, is amended to read as follows:
 Sec. 3808.157.  PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXES, IMPACT FEES, AND
 ASSESSMENTS. The district may not impose:
 (1)  a tax, impact fee, or assessment on a kind of
 property that Chapter 375, Local Government Code, provides is
 exempt from the imposition of a tax, impact fee, or assessment by a
 district governed by that chapter [a residential property or
 condominium]; or
 (2)  an impact fee or assessment on the property,
 equipment, or facilities of a person that provides to the public
 cable television, gas, light, power, telephone, sewage, or water
 service.
 SECTION 2.  (a) The legal notice of the intention to
 introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
 Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
 copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
 officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
 under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
 Government Code.
 (b)  The governor, one of the required recipients, has
 submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
 Environmental Quality.
 (c)  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
 its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
 lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
 representatives within the required time.
 (d)  All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
 state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
 to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
 and accomplished.
 SECTION 3.  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, 2017.