| TO: | Honorable Tom Craddick, Speaker of the House, House of Representatives |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB492 by Orr (Relating to the removal, transfer, or exclusion of territory in emergency services districts.), As Passed 2nd House |
SECTION 1 of the bill would amend the Health and Safety Code by adding Subchapter H to Chapter 775 regarding changing the boundaries of a district with a planned community. Subchapter H would apply only to certain planned communities in a county with a population of 2.8 million or more. Based on the 2000 U.S. Census, the subchapter would apply only to a planned community located wholly or partly in Harris County.
SECTION 2 would amend Section 776.052(a), Health and Safety Code, by removing reference to the extraterritorial jurisdiction from the area of an emergency services district as territory included in a municipality's limits that the municipality may remove from the emergency services district.
Because SECTION 1 of the bill would not have statewide impact on units of local government of the same type or class, no comment from this office is required by the rules of the House/Senate as to its probable fiscal implication on units of local government.
Regarding SECTION 2, although an emergency services district could lose territory, those districts responding to an inquiry about the impact of the bill indicated that no significant fiscal implication is anticipated.
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, SD, DB
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