By: Carona S.B. No. 1086

(In the Senate - Filed March 2, 2007; March 14, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; March 29, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; March 29, 2007, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1086 By: Wentworth

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to providing notice of the anticipated fiscal impact of municipal charter amendments.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 9.004, Local Government Code, is amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

(c) Notice of the election shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the municipality. The notice must:

(1) include a substantial copy of the proposed amendment; [and]

(2) include an estimate of the anticipated fiscal impact to the municipality if the proposed amendment is approved at the election; and

(3) be published on the same day in each of two successive weeks, with the first publication occurring before the 14th day before the date of the election.

(f) The requirement imposed by Subsection (c)(2) does not waive governmental immunity for any purpose and a person may not seek injunctive relief or any other judicial remedy to enforce the estimate of the anticipated fiscal impact on the municipality.

SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to an election for a charter amendment ordered on or after the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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