1-1     By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 896
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 4, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; April 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to municipal participation in contracted developer cost.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 212.072, Local Government
1-11     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-12           (b)  The contract must establish the limit of participation
1-13     by the municipality at a level not to exceed 30 percent of the
1-14     total cost for public improvements necessitated by the developer.
1-15     In addition, the contract may also allow participation by the
1-16     municipality at a level not to exceed 100 percent of the total cost
1-17     for any oversizing of improvements required by the municipality,
1-18     including but not limited to increased capacity of improvements to
1-19     anticipate other future development in the area [contract price].
1-20     The municipality is liable only for the agreed payment of its
1-21     share, which shall be determined in advance either as a lump sum or
1-22     as a factor or percentage of the total actual cost as determined by
1-23     municipal ordinance.
1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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