1-1  By:  Shapiro                                          S.B. No. 1054
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 9, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; March 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 4; March 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to establishment of infrastructure funds by certain
    1-9  municipalities.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 402.001, Local Government Code, is
   1-12  amended by adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:
   1-13        (e)  A municipality may by ordinance add a fee to the utility
   1-14  bill of a municipally owned utility system.  The fee:
   1-15              (1)  may not exceed $3 per month;
   1-16              (2)  is payable at intervals determined by the
   1-17  governing body of the municipality;
   1-18              (3)  shall be maintained in a segregated and completely
   1-19  identifiable account to be used for:
   1-20                    (A)  street construction and maintenance; or
   1-21                    (B)  capital improvements or infrastructure
   1-22  related to water supply, treatment, and distribution facilities or
   1-23  wastewater or stormwater collection and treatment facilities.
   1-24        (f)  A municipality is not eligible to impose a fee
   1-25  authorized under Subsection (e) if the municipality imposes a
   1-26  similar fee by virtue of authority in its charter.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
   1-32                               * * * * *