1-1 By: Combs (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 1962
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 1993;
1-3 April 21, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 10, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
1-6 May 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1962 By: Barrientos
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to adding land to a municipal utility district by petition
1-24 of landowner.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 54.711, Water Code, is amended to read as
1-27 follows:
1-28 Sec. 54.711. ADDING LAND BY PETITION OF LANDOWNER. (a) The
1-29 owner or owners of land contiguous to the district or otherwise may
1-30 file with the board a petition requesting that there be included in
1-31 the district the land described in the petition by metes and bounds
1-32 or by lot and block number if there is a recorded plat of the area
1-33 to be included in the district.
1-34 (b) Notwithstanding Section 54.016 of this code or the terms
1-35 and provisions regarding annexation of additional lands to the
1-36 district in a municipality's written consent to creation and
1-37 inclusion of land within a district, a district may add land
1-38 covered by a petition under this section if:
1-39 (1) none of the land is, in whole or in part, within
1-40 the boundaries of the Barton Springs-Edwards Underground
1-41 Conservation District;
1-42 (2) none of the land is in the corporate limits of the
1-43 municipality;
1-44 (3) the district's service will provide for the
1-45 integration and extension of the existing water, wastewater,
1-46 drainage, and park systems of the added land in a more compatible
1-47 manner than if the land were not added and served by the district;
1-48 (4) the district's economic condition is improved by
1-49 the development of the added land;
1-50 (5) the district has sufficient water, wastewater, and
1-51 drainage facilities to serve the added land without increasing its
1-52 total bonding authority;
1-53 (6) the district has a certified assessed value in
1-54 excess of $150,000,000 and has issued more than 75 percent of the
1-55 aggregate value of the bonds initially authorized by the voters;
1-56 (7) the district is greater than 750 acres in area and
1-57 the land to be added is contiguous to the district; and
1-58 (8) the petitioners and the district have entered into
1-59 an agreement concerning the addition of the land and reimbursement.
1-60 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-61 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-62 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-63 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-64 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-65 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-66 * * * * *
1-67 Austin,
1-68 Texas
2-1 May 10, 1993
2-2 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-3 President of the Senate
2-4 Sir:
2-5 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
2-6 No. 1962, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-7 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-8 that it do not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in
2-9 lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
2-10 Sims,
2-11 Chairman
2-12 * * * * *
2-13 WITNESSES
2-14 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1962.