By: Callegari (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay) H.B. No. 1599
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2005;
April 29, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on
Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 2005, reported adversely,
with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4,
Nays 0; May 16, 2005, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1599 By: Wentworth
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain conservation and reclamation districts' use of
money received under a contract with a municipality.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 49, Water Code, is amended
by adding Section 49.2145 to read as follows:
Sec. 49.2145. USE OF MONEY RECEIVED UNDER CERTAIN
CONTRACTS. (a) This section applies only to a district located in:
(1) a county included in the Harris-Galveston Coastal
Subsidence District; or
(2) a county included in the Fort Bend Subsidence
District.
(b) A district that receives money from a municipality under
the terms of a contract with the municipality, including a
strategic partnership agreement authorized by Section 43.0751,
Local Government Code, may use the money for any purpose of the
district or the municipality, unless the contract requires the
district to use the money for a specified purpose. For purposes of
this chapter, a district purpose includes a municipal purpose for
which money is used under this section.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
contract between a municipality and a conservation and reclamation
district entered into before, on, or after the effective date of
this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
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