BILL ANALYSIS

 

 

Senate Research Center	H.B. 2329
86R12166 SLB-D	By: Springer (Fallon)
	Intergovernmental Relations
	5/3/2019
	Engrossed

 

 

 

AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

 

The purpose of H.B. 2329 is to allow for the dissolution of the North Montague County Water Supply District. The district and the City of Nocona have reached an agreement where the city will assume the facilities and service obligations of the district, and the district will no longer have a need to exist.

 

The district has no outstanding debt, and desires to avoid the costs associated with a long-term dissolution process through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, such as holding board of directors elections and annual filings even though the district will be dormant. Expedient dissolution of the district also avoids unnecessary duplication of costs and services by the district and the dity.

 

The district, the City of Nocona, and Montague County all support the dissolution of the district through H.B. 2329. There is no opposition to H.B. 2329 that the district is aware of.

 

H.B. 2329 amends current law relating to the dissolution of the North Montague County Water Supply District.

 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

 

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

 

SECTION 1. Requires the directors of the North Montague County Water Supply District (district) to wind up the affairs of the district.

 

(b) Provides that, on December 31, 2019:

 

(1) the district is dissolved;

 

(2) the terms of the directors of the district expire; and

 

(3) all assets and liabilities of the district are transferred to the City of Nocona.

 

SECTION 2. Repealer, effective January 1, 2020: Chapter 12 (relating to creating the district), Acts of the 53rd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1954.

 

SECTION 3. Provides that all requirements of the constitution and laws of this state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled and accomplished.

 

SECTION 4. Effective date, this Act, except as provided by Section 2 of this Act: September 1, 2019.