By Tillery H.B. No. 2123
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the reimbursement of expenses incurred by certain
1-3 airports for providing municipal services within the boundaries of
1-4 a municipality.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 22, Transportation Code, is
1-7 amended by adding Section 22.089 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 22.089. REIMBURSEMENT FOR PROVISION OF MUNICIPAL
1-9 SERVICES. (a) If one or more airport passenger terminal buildings
1-10 owned jointly by populous home-rule municipalities that are
1-11 constituent agencies are located within the boundaries of a
1-12 municipality that is not a constituent agency, the municipality
1-13 that is not a constituent agency shall reimburse the airport for
1-14 expenses incurred by the airport in providing one or more of the
1-15 services listed in Section 43.056(b), Local Government Code, in
1-16 accordance with Subsection (b).
1-17 (b) If the governing body of the airport so elects, the
1-18 governing body may require the municipality that is not a
1-19 constituent agency to reimburse the airport or the constituent
1-20 agencies for the expenses incurred by the airport an amount equal
1-21 to the lesser of:
1-22 (1) the total cost to the airport of providing one or
1-23 more services listed in Section 43.056(b), Local Government Code,
1-24 provided within the corporate boundaries of the municipality that
2-1 is not a constituent agency; or
2-2 (2) the sum of the following amounts collected,
2-3 credited to, or received by a municipality in any calendar year
2-4 that are generated from that part of the municipality lying within
2-5 the geographic boundaries of an airport subject to the authority of
2-6 a joint board:
2-7 (A) the annual maintenance and operation portion
2-8 of the ad valorem tax levy on real and personal property, excluding
2-9 the portion necessary for general obligation debt service of the
2-10 municipality;
2-11 (B) sales and use taxes, excluding sales and use
2-12 tax levies dedicated for specific purposes authorized by law;
2-13 (C) utility franchise taxes;
2-14 (D) municipal court revenues, including fines,
2-15 fees, and court costs resulting from citations written by airport
2-16 police officers or airport security personnel who are peace
2-17 officers under Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, for
2-18 violations of law occurring within the geographic boundaries of the
2-19 airport;
2-20 (E) mixed beverage taxes; and
2-21 (F) all other general revenue tax levies.
2-22 (c) Reimbursements required under this section shall be paid
2-23 yearly by March 31 of the calendar year following the calendar year
2-24 in which the expenses were incurred.
2-25 (d) This section applies only to a municipality that is not
2-26 a constituent agency and that has not entered into an agreement as
2-27 authorized under Section 22.0781.
3-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2002.