By: Deuell S.B. No. 1878
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to validating actions of and amending assessments imposed
by the Falcon's Lair Utility and Reclamation District, of Dallas
County, Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 20A, Chapter 935, Acts of the 69th
Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended by adding Subsection
(e) to read as follows:
(e) If the board levies an assessment to pay the cost of an
improvement project and subsequently the improvement project is
amended or canceled and replaced by a different improvement
project, the board may amend the special assessment order and the
assessments imposed in the order to reflect the change of projects,
the costs of the revised improvement project, and the benefits of
the revised improvement project. The amended assessment order may
be adopted after a hearing is conducted in accordance with the
procedures provided by Subsection (d) of this section.
SECTION 2. (a) The legislature validates and confirms in
all respects any act or proceeding of the Falcon's Lair Utility and
Reclamation District, of Dallas County, Texas, including elections
and annexations, not excepted by Subsection (b) of this section and
taken not more than eight years before the effective date of this
Act, effective as of the date on which the act or proceeding
occurred.
(b) This section does not apply to an act or proceeding that
is the subject of litigation pending on the effective date of this
Act or to an act that, under a statute of this state or the United
States, was a misdemeanor or a felony at the time the act occurred.
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.