BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 3935

By: Thompson, Senfronia

Natural Resources

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Interested parties note that the East Aldine Management District, in existence for more than a decade, has been providing a myriad of services to area businesses and residents with revenues collected from a voter-authorized sales tax. These services include the construction of a water and wastewater collection system, enhanced public safety patrol services, the construction of sidewalks for safer pedestrian traffic, and improved lighting along major corridors within the district.

H.B. 3935 seeks to add certain parcels of land to the existing territory of the East Aldine Management District for the purpose of allowing and legitimizing expenditures by the district in the added areas to provide services currently not being provided by other local governments.

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. 3935 adds certain tracts of land in Harris County as described by their respective boundaries to the territory of the East Aldine Management District.

EFFECTIVE DATE

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