88R13202 MP-F
 
  By: Gates H.B. No. 5325
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the boundaries of the Fort Bend County Municipal
  Utility District No. 144.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  DEFINITION. In this Act, "district" means the
  Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 144.
         SECTION 2.  EXCLUSION OF TERRITORY.  The boundaries of the
  district are adjusted to exclude the following parcel of land:
         35.460 acres of land situated in the Wm. Lusk Survey,
  Abstract 276, Fort Bend County, Texas, being that certain called
  35.46-acre tract of land as described in deed and recorded in the
  Official Public Records of Real Property of Fort Bend County, Texas
  under County Clerk's File Number 2003148301, said 35.460 acres of
  land being more particularly described by metes and bounds as
  follows, bearing orientation is based on the Texas Coordinate
  System of 1983, South Central Zone:
         COMMENCING at a P.K. nail found at the northeasterly corner
  of the Wm. Lusk Survey, Abstract 276, being the southeasterly
  corner of the Jane H. Long Survey, Abstract 55 and being in the
  northwesterly line of the Wiley Martin Survey, Abstract 56;
         Thence, N 67'42'50" W, with the common line of the Wm. Lusk
  and Jane H. Long Surveys, a distance of 2765.00 feet to a 5/8-inch
  iron rod with cap set for the POINT OF BEGINNING of the herein
  described tract;
         Thence, S 22'17'36" W, with the northwesterly line of that
  certain called 3.42-acre tract of land as described in deed and
  recorded In the Official Public Records of Real Property of Fort
  Bend County, Texas under County Clerk's File Number 9722217, a
  distance of 261.42 feet to a point in the northerly right-of-way
  line of F.M. 762 (based on a width of 100.00 feet), from which a
  found 3/4 inch iron pipe bears N 29°32' E, a distance of 0.4 feet;
         Thence, N 83'10'49" W, with the northerly right-of-way line
  of F.M. 762, a distance of 858.67 feet to a 3/4-inch iron pipe found
  for a point of curvature to the right;
         Thence in a northwesterly direction along the northeasterly
  right-of-way line of F.M. 762 with said curve to the right, having a
  central angle of 19'38'05', a radius of 5670.00 feet, an arc length
  of 1943.07 feet and having a chord bearing of N 73°21'47' W, a
  distance of 1933.57 feet to a 3/4 inch iron pipe found In the
  southeasterly line of the Robert E. Hardy Survey, Abstract 187;
         Thence, N 22°22'55" E, with the southeasterly line of the
  Robert E. Hardy Survey, a distance of 680.74 feet to a 3/4 Inch iron
  pipe found in the southwesterly line of the Jane H. Long Survey;
         Thence, S 67°42'50" E, with the southwesterly line of the Jane
  H. Long Survey, a distance of 2750.66 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING
  and containing 35.460 acres of land.
         SECTION 3.  RIGHTS OF BONDHOLDERS. The exclusion of
  property under this Act does not diminish or impair the rights of
  the holders of any outstanding and unpaid bonds, warrants, or other
  certificates of indebtedness of the district.
         SECTION 4.  APPORTIONMENT OF DISTRICT INDEBTEDNESS. (a)
  The excluded property is not released from the payment of its pro
  rata share of the district's indebtedness.
         (b)  The district shall continue to levy taxes each year on
  the property excluded from the district at the same rate levied on
  other property of the district until the taxes collected from the
  excluded property equal the property's pro rata share of the
  indebtedness of the district on the effective date of this Act. The
  taxes collected shall be applied exclusively to the payment of the
  excluded property's pro rata share of the indebtedness.
         (c)  The owner of any part of the excluded property at any
  time may pay in full the owner's share of the pro rata share of the
  indebtedness of the district.
         SECTION 5.  NOTICE. (a) The legal notice of the intention
  to introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
  Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
  copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
  officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
  under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
  Government Code.
         (b)  The governor, one of the required recipients, has
  submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
  Environmental Quality.
         (c)  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
  its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
  lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
  representatives within the required time.
         (d)  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 6.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  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, 2023.