BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 995

By: Muñoz, Jr.

Special Purpose Districts

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Hidalgo County Water Control and Improvement District No. 19, which is located partially within the corporate limits and extraterritorial jurisdictions of the Cities of Mission, McAllen, and Granjeno, is currently authorized to provide certain services to land located within district boundaries. Interested parties note the need to amend the powers of the district to include, among other things, the power to undertake certain road projects.  H.B. 995 seeks to address that need.

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. 995 amends the Special District Local Laws Code to establish provisions relating to the Hidalgo County Water Control and Improvement District No. 19. The bill grants the district the power to undertake certain road projects and provides for division of the district. The bill authorizes the district, subject to certain requirements, to issue obligations and impose a property tax and provides for a certain maintenance tax.    

H.B. 995 establishes that the district retains all the rights, powers, privileges, authority, duties, and functions that it had before the bill's effective date and provides for the validation and confirmation of certain district actions and proceedings taken before such date.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2013.