BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 4671

By: Goodwin

Land & Resource Management

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

It has been suggested that the Ranch at Cypress Creek Municipal Utility District No. 1 could better serve its area if the district had the authority to undertake certain road projects and to appoint architectural committees. H.B. 4671 seeks to provide such authority.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 4671 amends Chapter 21, Acts of the 71st Legislature, 6th Called Session, 1990, to establish that the Ranch at Cypress Creek Municipal Utility District No. 1 is created to accomplish the purposes of a municipal utility district and a water control and improvement district and the purposes of certain constitutional provisions that relate to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, or maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads. The bill authorizes the district, under those constitutional provisions, to design, acquire, construct, finance, improve, operate, maintain, and convey to the state, a county, or a municipality for operation and maintenance macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads and sets out provisions relating to road standards and requirements.

H.B. 4671 authorizes the Ranch at Cypress Creek Municipal Utility District No. 1, in order to carry out municipal utility district provisions relating to the enforcement of real property restrictions, to appoint an architectural committee for a subdivision located wholly inside the district that does not have an architectural committee or an area of the district not located in a subdivision, except that the bill prohibits the district from appointing an architectural committee for a subdivision for which the governing provisions prohibit the appointment of an architectural committee by the district or otherwise.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2019.