By Harris S.B. No. 624
76R6820 CMR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain crime control and prevention districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 363, Local Government Code,
1-5 is amended by adding Section 363.1015 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 363.1015. ALTERNATE FORMS OF APPOINTMENT: BOARD OF
1-7 DIRECTORS. (a) The governing body of a municipality or county by
1-8 resolution may appoint the governing body's membership as the board
1-9 of directors of the district.
1-10 (b) In a district for which the board is not appointed under
1-11 Subsection (a), the governing body of the municipality or county
1-12 may create a board by having each member of the governing body
1-13 appoint one director to the board, subject to confirmation by the
1-14 governing body.
1-15 (c) A director appointed under Subsection (b) serves:
1-16 (1) at the pleasure of the governing body of the
1-17 municipality or county; and
1-18 (2) for a term concurrent with the term of the
1-19 appointing member.
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 363.155, Local Government Code, is
1-21 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-22 (d) Subsection (c) does not apply to a district that
1-23 contains only one municipality.
1-24 SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 363, Local Government Code,
2-1 is amended by adding Section 363.2515 to read as follows:
2-2 Sec. 363.2515. CONTINUATION OF DISTRICT: CERTAIN POLITICAL
2-3 SUBDIVISIONS. (a) The board or the commissioners court of the
2-4 county or governing body of the municipality that created the
2-5 district may specify the number of years for which a district
2-6 should be continued.
2-7 (b) A district may be continued under Subsection (a) only
2-8 for 5, 10, 15, or 20 years.
2-9 (c) For a continuation referendum under this section, the
2-10 ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
2-11 proposition: "Whether the _________ Crime Control and Prevention
2-12 District should be continued for _______ years and the crime
2-13 control and prevention district sales tax should be continued for
2-14 __________ years."
2-15 SECTION 4. Section 363.260(a), Local Government Code, is
2-16 amended to read as follows:
2-17 (a) If less than a majority of the votes cast in a
2-18 continuation referendum are for the continuation of a district or
2-19 if a majority of the votes cast in a dissolution referendum are for
2-20 dissolution of the district:
2-21 (1) the board shall certify that fact to the secretary
2-22 of state not later than the 10th day after the date of the canvass
2-23 of the returns; and
2-24 (2) the district is dissolved and ceases to operate on
2-25 the earlier of:
2-26 (A) the last day of the district's fiscal year;
2-27 or
3-1 (B) the 180th day after the date that the
3-2 continuation or dissolution referendum is held.
3-3 SECTION 5. (a) Section 363.101(c), Local Government Code, is
3-4 repealed.
3-5 (b) Sections 3 and 4, Chapter 1248, Acts of the 75th
3-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, are repealed.
3-7 (c) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
3-8 another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999,
3-9 relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
3-10 codes.
3-11 SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
3-12 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the
3-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.