1-1 By: Nelson S.B. No. 1451
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 16, 1997, rereferred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-5 Relations; April 24, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-6 vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 24, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the addition of territory to or exclusion of territory
1-10 from a county development district.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 312.638, Tax Code, is amended by amending
1-13 Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as
1-14 follows:
1-15 (b) If the commissioners court unanimously determines from
1-16 the evidence that the best interests of the persons and property in
1-17 the district will be served by adding or excluding land, the
1-18 commissioners court shall enter in its records the appropriate
1-19 findings [and order adding or excluding land].
1-20 (c) If the commissioners court makes a finding to exclude
1-21 land from the district, the court shall enter an order excluding
1-22 the land.
1-23 (d) If the commissioners court makes a finding to add land
1-24 to the district, the commissioners court shall call and hold an
1-25 election for that purpose in the territory to be added to the
1-26 district and an election in the existing territory of the district.
1-27 The elections must be held on the same date. The commissioners
1-28 court shall set the date of the elections in accordance with
1-29 Section 41.001, Election Code. The commissioners court shall order
1-30 the expansion of the district only if a majority of the voters
1-31 voting in each election approve the expansion of the district.
1-32 (e) The ballots for the elections required under Subsection
1-33 (d) shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
1-34 proposition: "The inclusion of (briefly describe additional area)
1-35 in the ________ County Development District No._____."
1-36 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42 passage, and it is so enacted.
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