Amend CSHB 3335 (Senate committee report) as follows:
(1) Insert the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to
the bill:
SECTION __. Section 54.016(f), Water Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(f) This subsection does not apply to a city or a district
that is located in whole or in part in a county with a population of
more than 3.3 million or a county adjacent to a county with a
population of more than 3.3 million. A city may provide in its
written consent for the inclusion of land in a district that a
contract ("allocation agreement") between the district and the city
be entered into prior to the first issue of bonds, notes, warrants,
or other obligations of the district. The allocation agreement
shall contain the following provisions:
(1) a method by which the district shall continue to
exist following the annexation of all territory within the district
by the city, if the district is initially located outside the
corporate limits of the city;
(2) an allocation of the taxes or revenues of the
district or the city which will assure that, following the date of
the inclusion of all the district's territory within the corporate
limits of the city, the total annual ad valorem taxes collected by
the city and the district from taxable property within the district
does not exceed an amount greater than the city's ad valorem tax
upon such property;
(3) an allocation of governmental services to be
provided by the city or the district following the date of the
inclusion of all of the district's territory within the corporate
limits of the city;
(4) such other terms and conditions as may be deemed
appropriate by the city.
SECTION __. The legislature finds that an agreement entered
into prior to the effective date of this Act between a municipality
and a municipal utility district that are located in whole or in
part in a county with a population of more than 3.3 million or a
county adjacent to a county with a population of more than 3.3
million is an allocation agreement only if the agreement strictly
complies with the requirements of Section 54.016(f), Water Code,
and is identified as an "allocation agreement" by specific
reference in the agreement to Section 54.016(f), Water Code.
(2) Renumber SECTIONS of the bill appropriately.