SRC-JXG S.B. 1175 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterS.B. 1175
By: Wentworth
Intergovernmental Relations
6/29/1999
Enrolled


DIGEST 

Currently, counties with certain road districts and refinanced bond
indebtedness are the ultimate guarantors of millions of dollars in bonds.
These road districts may be negatively impacted by changes in impervious
cover limits that a city may impose, if some of the territory of the road
district lies within a city. Repayment of bonds becomes difficult, if the
amount of land to be developed within the district is limited. S.B. 1175
will assure that land could be developed at a current impervious cover
limit. 

PURPOSE

As enrolled, S.B. 1175 regulates land development in certain political
subdivisions to certain cover limits. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Chapter 3, Title 22, V.T.C.S., by adding Article 726a, as
follows: 

Art. 726a. LAND DEVELOPMENT IN ROAD DISTRICT WITH 
OUTSTANDING INDEBTEDNESS

Sec. 1. DEFINITIONS. Defines "affected area," "assessment road district,"
"land development," and "regulation." 

Sec. 2. CHANGES IN REGULATION OF LAND DEVELOPMENT. Requires the political
subdivision to pay the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the assessment
road district before the change takes effect, if a political subdivision
changes regulations regarding land development that apply to more than 20
percent of the land in an assessment road district in a manner that reduces
the amount of impervious cover, and defined in the regulations or that
reduces the total allowable floor area of a building on developed land
after March 9, 1999 and before March 9, 2019. Provides that Subsection (a)
does not apply to an affected land owner who agrees in writing to a
regulation that reduces the amount of impervious cover or that reduces the
total allowable floor area of a building on developed land. 

Sec. 3. ANNEXATION OF PROPERTY TO AN ASSESSMENT ROAD DISTRICT. Authorizes a
person who owns land in an affected area to request that the governing body
of an assessment road district annex any part of the owner's land within
two miles of the district's boundaries. Authorizes the governing body of
the district by resolution to annex the land, on request under Subsection
(a) of this section. Requires the governing body of the district to
reapportion the remaining assessment on the owner's land on a per acre
basis for all of the owner's land in the district, after annexation of the
land under this section.  

Sec. 4. CONFLICT WITH OTHER LAW.  Provides that to the extent of any
conflict between this article and Chapter 245, Local Government Code, that
chapter prevails. 
 
 
 Sec. 5. EXPIRATION. Provides that this article expires March 10, 2019.

SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1999.