By: West  S.B. No. 660
         (In the Senate - Filed February 19, 2013; February 25, 2013,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
  Relations; March 25, 2013, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 25, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to assessment collection in certain public improvement
  districts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 372.0035, Local Government Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  A municipality that undertakes a project under this
  section may:
               (1)  adopt procedures for the collection of assessments
  under this chapter that are consistent with the municipality's
  procedures for the collection of a hotel occupancy tax under
  Chapter 351, Tax Code; and
               (2)  pursue remedies for the failure to pay an
  assessment under this chapter that are available to the
  municipality for failure to pay a hotel occupancy tax under Chapter
  351, Tax Code.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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