By: Menéndez  S.B. No. 804
         (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 2021; March 11, 2021,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government;
  April 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; April 21, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the authority of a municipality to add property to a
  common characteristic public improvement district.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 372.0121, Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 372.0121.  INCLUSION OF PROPERTY [AREA] IN COMMON
  CHARACTERISTIC PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.  (a) Notwithstanding
  Section 372.012 or any other requirement in this chapter, the
  governing body of a municipality may include property in a public
  improvement district described by Section 372.0035 after the
  establishment of the district if:
               (1)  the property is a hotel; and
               (2)  a sufficient number of the record owners of the
  real property currently included and proposed to be included in the
  district have consented to be included in the district by signing
  the original petition to establish the district or by signing a
  petition or written consent to include property in the district
  [the property could have been included in the district without
  violating Section 372.005(b-1) when the district was created
  regardless of whether the record owners of the property signed the
  original petition].
         (b)  For purposes of Subsection (a)(2), the number of
  consenting record owners is sufficient if the record owners own
  more than 60 percent of appraised value of taxable real property
  liable for assessment in the district, as determined by the current
  appraisal roll of the appraisal district in which the property is
  located, and:
               (1)  constitute more than 60 percent of all record
  owners of taxable real property liable for assessment in the
  district; or
               (2)  own, in aggregate, more than 60 percent of the area
  of all taxable real property liable for assessment in the district.
         SECTION 2.  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, 2021.
 
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