By:  Bailey (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos)                           H.B. No. 3528
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2005; 
May 12, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Intergovernmental Relations; May 20, 2005, reported adversely, 
with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, 
Nays 0; May 20, 2005, sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3528                                   By:  Gallegos


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to property exemptions in, and the validation of certain 
acts of, the Greater Greenspoint Management District of Harris 
County.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 3803.156, Special District Local Laws 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 3803.156.  PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM ASSESSMENT AND IMPACT 
FEES.  Because the district is created in an area that is devoted 
primarily to commercial and business activity, the district may not 
impose an impact fee or assessment on a detached single-family 
residential property or a residential duplex, triplex, fourplex, or 
condominium.  A condominium is exempt under this section only if for 
the year in which the impact fee or assessment is imposed on the 
condominium, the condominium receives a residence homestead 
exemption under Section 11.13, Tax Code.
	SECTION 2.  (a)  The legislature validates and confirms all 
governmental acts and proceedings of the Greater Greenspoint 
Management District of Harris County, including acts of the 
district's board of directors, that occurred before April 15, 2005.
	(b)  This section does not apply to any matter that on the 
effective date of this Act:
		(1)  is involved in litigation if the litigation 
ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final court 
judgment; or
		(2)  has been held invalid by a final court judgment.                         
	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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