1-1 By: Linebarger (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 394
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 24, 1993;
1-3 March 25, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Finance; May 10, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Montford x
1-9 Turner x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Ellis x
1-14 Haley x
1-15 Moncrief x
1-16 Parker x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Sims x
1-19 Truan x
1-20 Zaffirini x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the maximum tax rate of certain emergency services
1-24 districts.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 775.018(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-27 amended to read as follows:
1-28 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), on the granting of
1-29 a petition, the commissioners court shall order an election to
1-30 confirm the district's creation and authorize the imposition of a
1-31 tax not to exceed 10 cents on each $100 of the taxable value of
1-32 property taxable by the district or three <two> cents on each $100
1-33 of the taxable value of property taxable by the district if any
1-34 area in the district is also included in a rural fire prevention
1-35 district.
1-36 SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 775, Health and Safety
1-37 Code, is amended by adding Section 775.0742 to read as follows:
1-38 Sec. 775.0742. INCREASE OF MAXIMUM TAX RATE. (a) This
1-39 section applies only to a district:
1-40 (1) in which some area of the district is included in
1-41 a rural fire prevention district or was included at the time the
1-42 district was created; and
1-43 (2) that had previously authorized the levy of a tax
1-44 not to exceed two cents on each $100 of the taxable value of the
1-45 property taxable by the district.
1-46 (b) The board may order an election on the question of
1-47 increasing the district's tax rate to three cents on each $100 of
1-48 the taxable value of the property taxable by the district.
1-49 (c) The election shall be held on the first authorized
1-50 uniform election date that allows sufficient time to comply with
1-51 other requirements of law.
1-52 (d) The ballot for the election shall be printed to permit
1-53 voting for or against the proposition: "The levy of annual taxes
1-54 by the district at a rate not to exceed three cents on each $100 of
1-55 the taxable value of property taxable by the district." The
1-56 election shall be held in accordance with the applicable provisions
1-57 of the Election Code.
1-58 (e) The board shall meet and canvass the election returns.
1-59 If the board finds that the election results are favorable to the
1-60 proposition, the board may levy taxes as authorized by the
1-61 proposition. If the board finds that the election results are not
1-62 favorable to the proposition, another election on the question of
1-63 raising the district's maximum tax rate may not be held before the
1-64 first anniversary of the date of the election at which voters
1-65 disapproved the proposition.
1-66 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-67 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-68 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-5 * * * * *
2-6 Austin,
2-7 Texas
2-8 May 10, 1993
2-9 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-10 President of the Senate
2-11 Sir:
2-12 We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred H.B. No. 394,
2-13 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-14 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-15 pass and be printed.
2-16 Montford,
2-17 Chairman
2-18 * * * * *
2-19 WITNESSES
2-20 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 394.