BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 3111

By: Craddick

Urban Affairs

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Currently, certain municipalities that have not adopted an impact fee have the ability to allow a landowner or developer to connect to a capital improvement and pay a fee for doing so.  This ability helps to pay for needed water and sewer lines, street and roadway facilities, and drainage improvements.  Because of population growth, the statute determining which municipalities have this ability needs to be adjusted. H.B. 3111 seeks to make this adjustment, allowing the municipalities to continue to encourage orderly growth and development.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 3111 amends the Local Government Code to increase from 105,000 to 115,000, in a municipality that constitutes more than three-fourths of the population of the county in which the majority of the area of the municipality is located, the maximum population threshold under which provisions relating to adjoining landowner fees for financing capital improvements apply.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2011.