By:  Ramsay                                           H.B. No. 2298
       73R6129 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the payment of certain fees to a county by the state or
    1-3  a state agency or institution.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 130, Local Government Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 130.909 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 130.909.  FEE FOR SERVICES TO STATE.  (a)  A county may
    1-8  charge and collect from the state or a state agency or institution
    1-9  owning property in the county an annual fee to compensate the
   1-10  county for any services that the county provides or makes available
   1-11  to the property or persons using the property, including law
   1-12  enforcement, public health and safety, transportation, sanitation,
   1-13  recreation, and information services.
   1-14        (b)  The commissioners court of the county shall determine
   1-15  the amount of the fee.  The fee may be based on the actual cost to
   1-16  the county of providing the services or may be a flat fee based on
   1-17  the size of the property or the number of persons using the
   1-18  property.  The fee may not exceed the amount of county property
   1-19  taxes that would have been applicable to the property for that year
   1-20  if the property were subject to taxation.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  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.