BILL ANALYSIS

S.B. 2282

By: Nichols

Natural Resources

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Interested parties note that the Angelina County Water Control and Improvement District No. 3 has experienced financial hardship over the last several years and contend that it would be beneficial to dissolve the district and add its territory to the Angelina County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1. S.B. 2282 seeks to provide for such dissolution and addition.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

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

S.B. 2282 requires the directors of the Angelina County Water Control and Improvement District No. 3 to wind up the affairs of the district beginning on the bill's effective date and dissolves the district on the 30th day after such date, at which time the terms of the district's directors expire and all assets and liabilities of the district are transferred to the Angelina County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1.

S.B. 2282 amends the Special District Local Laws Code to add, on the bill's effective date, the territory of the former Angelina County Water Control and Improvement District No. 3, as that territory existed on April 1, 2017, to the territory of the Angelina County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1.

S.B. 2282 authorizes the board of directors of the Angelina County Water Control and Improvement District No. 3, before the 30th day after the bill's effective date, to select from the members serving on the board on the date of the selection one member to serve as a nonvoting member of the board of the Angelina County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1 from the date of the selection until the next election of directors for the district.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.