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2005S0963-1  04/19/05


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 204, 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.