86R5473 JCG-D
By: Stephenson H.B. No. 681
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the inclusion of territory of a municipality in a
proposed county assistance district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 387.003(b-1), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b-1) If the proposed district includes any territory of a
municipality, the commissioners court shall send notice by
certified mail to the governing body of the municipality of the
commissioners court's intent to create the district. If the
municipality has created a development corporation under Chapter
504 or 505, the commissioners court shall also send the notice to
the board of directors of the corporation. The commissioners court
must send the notice not later than the 60th day before the date the
commissioners court orders the election. [The governing body of
the municipality may exclude the territory of the municipality from
the proposed district by sending notice by certified mail to the
commissioners court of the governing body's desire to exclude the
municipal territory from the district. The governing body must
send the notice not later than the 45th day after the date the
governing body receives notice from the commissioners court under
this subsection. The territory of a municipality that is excluded
under this subsection may subsequently be included in:
[(1) the district in an election held under Subsection
(f) with the consent of the municipality; or
[(2) another district after complying with the
requirements of this subsection and after an election under
Subsection (f).]
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to
notice sent to a municipality by a commissioners court under
Section 387.003(b-1), Local Government Code, as amended by this
Act, on or after the effective date of this Act. Notice sent before
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
on the date the notice was sent, and that law is continued in effect
for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.