By: Taylor S.B. No. 2212
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read
first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; April 11, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 11, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the maintenance and operation of certain projects by
certain drainage districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 34, Acts of the 57th Legislature, 3rd
Called Session, 1962, is amended by adding Section 19 to read as
follows:
Sec. 19. (a) The District may enter into a project
partnership agreement with the United States Army Corps of
Engineers for a project proposed to be located in the District and
listed in the Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay Texas Coastal Storm Risk
Management and Ecosystem Restoration report published by the United
States Army Corps of Engineers in May 2017. If the District enters
into a project partnership agreement under this subsection, the
District:
(1) must:
(A) develop a maintenance and operation plan for
the proposed project; and
(B) biennially submit a report to the General
Land Office and the legislature on expenditures of state money
relating to a project described by this subsection; and
(2) may enter into an agreement for a public-private
partnership to fund a local share of or the costs of the operation
and maintenance of a project described by this subsection.
(a-1) If the District enters into a project partnership
agreement under this section before November 1, 2020, the initial
report described by Subsection (a)(1)(B) must be submitted not
later than December 1, 2020. This subsection expires January 1,
2021.
(b) If a project described by Subsection (a) is built in the
District, the District may accept money from any source to:
(1) fund the maintenance and operation of the project;
and
(2) provide local matching funds required by the
project partnership agreement with the United States Army Corps of
Engineers.
SECTION 2. Chapter 307, Acts of the 58th Legislature,
Regular Session, 1963, is amended by adding Section 20 to read as
follows:
Sec. 20. (a) The District may enter into a project
partnership agreement with the United States Army Corps of
Engineers for a project proposed to be located in the District and
listed in the Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay Texas Coastal Storm Risk
Management and Ecosystem Restoration report published by the United
States Army Corps of Engineers in May 2017. If the District enters
into a project partnership agreement under this subsection, the
District:
(1) must:
(A) develop a maintenance and operation plan for
the proposed project; and
(B) biennially submit a report to the General
Land Office and the legislature on expenditures of state money
relating to a project described by this subsection; and
(2) may enter into an agreement for a public-private
partnership to fund a local share of or the costs of the operation
and maintenance of a project described by this subsection.
(a-1) If the District enters into a project partnership
agreement under this section before November 1, 2020, the initial
report described by Subsection (a)(1)(B) must be submitted not
later than December 1, 2020. This subsection expires January 1,
2021.
(b) If a project described by Subsection (a) is built in the
District, the District may accept money from any source to:
(1) fund the maintenance and operation of the project;
and
(2) provide local matching funds required by the
project partnership agreement with the United States Army Corps of
Engineers.
SECTION 3. Chapter 44, Acts of the 57th Legislature, 3rd
Called Session, 1962, is amended by adding Section 14 to read as
follows:
Sec. 14. (a) The District may enter into a project
partnership agreement with the United States Army Corps of
Engineers for a project proposed to be located in the District and
listed in the Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay Texas Coastal Storm Risk
Management and Ecosystem Restoration report published by the United
States Army Corps of Engineers in May 2017. If the District enters
into a project partnership agreement under this subsection, the
District:
(1) must:
(A) develop a maintenance and operation plan for
the proposed project; and
(B) biennially submit a report to the General
Land Office and the legislature on expenditures of state money
relating to a project described by this subsection; and
(2) may enter into an agreement for a public-private
partnership to fund a local share of or the costs of the operation
and maintenance of a project described by this subsection.
(a-1) If the District enters into a project partnership
agreement under this section before November 1, 2020, the initial
report described by Subsection (a)(1)(B) must be submitted not
later than December 1, 2020. This subsection expires January 1,
2021.
(b) If a project described by Subsection (a) is built in the
District, the District may accept money from any source to:
(1) fund the maintenance and operation of the project;
and
(2) provide local matching funds required by the
project partnership agreement with the United States Army Corps of
Engineers.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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