By: Brown S.B. No. 896
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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. Section 212.072(b), Local Government Code, is
1-4 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 [contract price] cost for public improvements necessitated by
1-8 the developer. In addition, the contract may also allow
1-9 participation by the municipality at a level not to exceed 100 per
1-10 cent of the total cost for any oversizing of improvements required
1-11 by the municipality, including, but not limited to, increased
1-12 capacity of improvements to anticipate other future development in
1-13 the area. The municipality is liable only for the agreed payment
1-14 of its share, which shall be determined in advance either as a lump
1-15 sum or as a factor or percentage of the total actual cost as
1-16 determined by 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.