By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 896
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to municipal participation in contracted developer cost.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 212.072, Local Government
 1-4     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-5           (b)  The contract must establish the limit of participation
 1-6     by the municipality at a level not to exceed 30 percent of the
 1-7     total cost for public improvements necessitated by the developer.
 1-8     In addition, the contract may also allow participation by the
 1-9     municipality at a level not to exceed 100 percent of the total cost
1-10     for any oversizing of improvements required by the municipality,
1-11     including but not limited to increased capacity of improvements to
1-12     anticipate other future development in the area [contract price].
1-13     The municipality is liable only for the agreed payment of its
1-14     share, which shall be determined in advance either as a lump sum or
1-15     as a factor or percentage of the total actual cost as determined by
1-16     municipal ordinance.
1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.