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.