BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 2388 |
By: Menéndez |
Economic & Small Business Development |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested individuals assert that the purpose of defense base development authorities is to take the land and buildings of a former military installation and to repurpose those assets for the economic benefit of the surrounding community. These individuals contend that defense base development authorities should not be subject to statutory provisions relating to public and private facilities and infrastructure for a number of reasons, including that such authorities are not supported by public funds in the daily operations of their facilities or in the repurposing of assets and that such authorities are self-sustaining, generating operating revenues from the leases or sale of land. These individuals also note that circumstances in which public funds are used by such authorities are very limited and the grants for those circumstances are subject to that state law. C.S.H.B. 2388 seeks to address this issue by granting a defense base development authority more freedom in determining the award of a contract.
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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.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 2388 amends the Local Government Code to make inapplicable to a defense base development authority or project of an authority certain provisions relating to public and private facilities and infrastructure and relating to contracting and delivery procedures for construction projects, either as provisions of Chapter 2267 and Chapter 2269, Government Code, or as provisions of Chapter 1334 (S.B. 1048), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, and Chapter 1129 (H.B. 628), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, depending on the Act of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes becoming law.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2013.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 2388 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and highlighted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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