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 * * * * *