By: Nelson S.B. No. 1451
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the addition of territory to or exclusion of territory
1-2 from a county development district.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 312.638, Tax Code, is amended by amending
1-5 Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (b) If the commissioners court unanimously determines from
1-8 the evidence that the best interests of the persons and property in
1-9 the district will be served by adding or excluding land, the
1-10 commissioners court shall enter in its records the appropriate
1-11 findings [and order adding or excluding land].
1-12 (c) If the commissioners court makes a finding to exclude
1-13 land from the district, the court shall enter an order excluding
1-14 the land.
1-15 (d) If the commissioners court makes a finding to add land
1-16 to the district, the commissioners court shall call and hold an
1-17 election for that purpose in the territory to be added to the
1-18 district and an election in the existing territory of the district.
1-19 The elections must be held on the same date. The commissioners
1-20 court shall set the date of the elections in accordance with
1-21 Section 41.001, Election Code. The commissioners court shall order
1-22 the expansion of the district only if a majority of the voters
1-23 voting in each election approve the expansion of the district.
2-1 (e) The ballots for the elections required under Subsection
2-2 (d) shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
2-3 proposition: "The inclusion of (briefly describe additional area)
2-4 in the ________ County Development District No._____."
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.