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.