1-1 By: Hightower (Senate Sponsor - Turner) H.B. No. 2829
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
1-4 Resources; May 21, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 21, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Sims x
1-9 Truan x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Brown x
1-14 Carriker x
1-15 Lucio x
1-16 Montford x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to authorizing the Elkins Lake Municipal Utility District
1-22 to transfer money from the district's municipal utility district
1-23 operating fund to the district's road utility district operating
1-24 fund.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act:
1-27 (1) "Board" means the board of directors of the Elkins
1-28 Lake Municipal Utility District.
1-29 (2) "District" means the Elkins Lake Municipal Utility
1-30 District.
1-31 SECTION 2. AUTHORITY. On the approval of the district's
1-32 voters, the district may transfer to its road utility district
1-33 operating fund the district's surplus net revenues from operation
1-34 funds collected under its municipal utility district taxing
1-35 authority through March 1, 1993. The total amount of transfers
1-36 under this Act may not exceed $500,000.
1-37 SECTION 3. ELECTION. (a) The board of directors shall call
1-38 and hold an election in the district to determine whether the
1-39 district will be authorized to transfer the funds.
1-40 (b) At the election, the ballots shall be printed to permit
1-41 voting for or against the proposition: "The Elkins Lake Municipal
1-42 Utility District shall be authorized to transfer surplus net
1-43 revenues up to $500,000 from the municipal utility district
1-44 operating fund to the road utility district operating fund."
1-45 (c) If a majority of the qualifying voters of the district
1-46 voting in the election favor the proposition, the district may
1-47 transfer the surplus net revenues in whole or in part at any time.
1-48 (d) If a majority of the qualifying voters of the district
1-49 voting in the election do not favor the proposition, the board may
1-50 not call and hold another election on the proposition before the
1-51 first anniversary of the date on which the most recent election on
1-52 the proposition is held.
1-53 (e) Section 41.001(a), Election Code, does not apply to an
1-54 election under this Act.
1-55 (f) Except as otherwise provided by this Act, the board of
1-56 directors shall call and hold the election in the manner provided
1-57 by the Election Code and by Chapter 13, Acts of the 68th
1-58 Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1984 (Article 6674r-1, Vernon's
1-59 Texas Civil Statutes), for municipal utility districts assuming
1-60 road utility district authority.
1-61 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
1-62 and the 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 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-67 passage, and it is so enacted.
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2-1 Austin,
2-2 Texas
2-3 May 21, 1993
2-4 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-5 President of the Senate
2-6 Sir:
2-7 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
2-8 No. 2829, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-9 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-10 that it do pass and be printed.
2-11 Sims,
2-12 Chairman
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2-14 WITNESSES
2-15 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2829.