By: Shapiro S.B. No. 1054 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to establishment of infrastructure funds by certain 1-2 municipalities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 402.001, Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) A municipality may by ordinance add a fee to the utility 1-7 bill of a municipally-owned utility system. The fee: 1-8 (1) may not exceed $3.00 per month; 1-9 (2) is payable at intervals determined by the 1-10 governing body of the municipality; 1-11 (3) shall be maintained in a segregated and completely 1-12 identifiable account to be used for: 1-13 (A) street construction and maintenance; or 1-14 (B) capital improvements or infrastructure 1-15 related to water supply, treatment, and distribution facilities or 1-16 wastewater or stormwater collection and treatment facilities. 1-17 (f) A municipality is not eligible to impose a fee 1-18 authorized under Subsection (e) of this section if the municipality 1-19 imposes a similar fee by virtue of authority in its charter. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.