BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 3530

By: Moody

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

The Texas Legislative Council is required by law to carry out a nonsubstantive revision of the Texas statutes in an effort to make the statutes more accessible, understandable, and usable without altering the sense, meaning, or effect of the law. H.B. 3530 seeks to provide for the nonsubstantive revision of certain local laws concerning water and wastewater special districts.

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

H.B. 3530 proposes new chapters of the Special District Local Laws Code as a nonsubstantive revision of certain local laws concerning water and wastewater special districts organized by type of district. The bill is organized into four articles, as follows:

·         Article 1 revises local laws concerning certain water and wastewater districts;

·         Article 2 makes a conforming amendment to a certain local law as necessary to continue without substantive change provisions of law not codified as part of the code;

·         Article 3 repeals the local laws revised in the proposed chapters and the portions of those local laws that have expired or that have been impliedly repealed; and

·         Article 4 provides for certain general matters with respect to the bill's provisions, including the legislature's intention that no substantive change is being made by the bill and that the repeal of a law by the bill does not affect a validation made under the law repealed.

H.B. 3530 repeals the following provisions:

·         Chapter 473, Acts of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985;

·         Section 6, Chapter 962, Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007;

·         Chapter 516, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;

·         Chapter 279, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959;

·         Section 3, Chapter 504, Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session, 1961;

·         Section 2, Chapter 570, Acts of the 60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967;

·         Section 2, Chapter 217, Acts of the 64th Legislature, Regular Session, 1975;

·         Section 3, Chapter 529, Acts of the 65th Legislature, Regular Session, 1977;

·         Section 4, Chapter 86, Acts of the 67th Legislature, Regular Session, 1981;

·         Section 3, Chapter 870, Acts of the 67th Legislature, Regular Session, 1981;

·         Section 5, Chapter 696, Acts of the 68th Legislature, Regular Session, 1983;

·         Sections 12 and 14, Chapter 23, Acts of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019;

·         Sections 1.01, 1.02, 1.02A, 1.03, 2.01, 2.02(b) and (c), 2.03, 2.03A, 2.04, 2.05, 2.06, 2.06A, 2.07, 2.08, 2.08A, 2.09, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 3.07, 3.08, 3.09, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.18, 3.18A, 3.19, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 3.22A, 3.23, 3.24, 3.25, 3.26, 3.27, 3.28, 4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05, 4.06, 4.07, 4.08, 4.09, 5.01, 5.02, 5.04, 5.05, 5.06, 5.07, 5.08, 5.09, and 5.10, Chapter 427, Acts of the 44th Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1935;

·         Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Chapter 699, Acts of the 64th Legislature, Regular Session, 1975;

·         Section 3, Chapter 665, Acts of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985;

·         Sections 16 and 18, Chapter 21, Acts of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019;

·         Chapter 472, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959; and

·         Chapter 518, Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989.

EFFECTIVE DATE

April 1, 2023.