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.
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