By: Price, Coleman, Huberty H.B. No. 2755

(Senate Sponsor - Alvarado)

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2019; April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; May 9, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 9, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to certain county and public health district fees.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 437.012(b), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) The [Except as provided by Subsection (f), the] fee charged by a county or public health district for issuing or renewing a permit may not exceed the amount necessary to recover the county's or district's cost under Subsection (d) [$150].

SECTION 2. Section 437.0123(b), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) A county or public health district that requires payment of a fee under Subsection (a) shall set the fee in an amount that does not exceed the amount necessary [allows the county or district] to recover [at least 50 percent of] the annual expenditures by the county or district for:

(1) reviewing and acting on a permit;

(2) amending and renewing a permit; [and]

(3) inspecting a facility as provided by this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter; and

(4) otherwise administering this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter.

SECTION 3. Chapter 437, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Section 437.0124 to read as follows:

Sec. 437.0124. COUNTY AND PUBLIC HEALTH DISTRICT FEE SCHEDULE. A county or public health district shall establish a fee schedule for any fees collected under this chapter and revise the fee schedule as necessary.

SECTION 4. The following laws are repealed:

(1) Sections 437.012(g) and (h), Health and Safety Code; and

(2) Section 437.0123(c), Health and Safety Code.

SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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