88R4493 JTZ-D
 
  By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 2434
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the dissolution of the SH130 Municipal Management
  District No. 1.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 3971, Special District
  Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Sections 3971.0902,
  3971.0903, and 3971.0904 to read as follows:
         Sec. 3971.0902.  MANDATORY DISSOLUTION. Except as provided
  by Section 3971.0903, not later than January 1, 2024, the board
  shall:
               (1)  wind up district operations;
               (2)  transfer all remaining district assets to a trust
  created for the purposes of this section, with the commissioners
  court of the most populous county in which the district is located
  acting as trustee; and
               (3)  dissolve the district.
         Sec. 3971.0903.  DISTRICT OBLIGATIONS AND LIABILITIES. (a)  
  If on January 1, 2024, the board finds that the board would not be
  authorized to dissolve the district under Section 3971.0901 because
  of an existing condition described by Section 3971.0901(c):
               (1)  the board may not dissolve the district under
  Section 3971.0902;
               (2)  the board shall delay the transfer of assets to the
  trust as provided by Section 3971.0902 until the board may dissolve
  the district; and
               (3)  the district continues in existence solely for the
  purposes of resolving the condition, winding up district
  operations, and making the transfer of assets to the trust as
  provided by Section 3971.0902.
         (b)  The board shall resolve the conditions and continue to
  wind up district operations as quickly as practicable until the
  board would be authorized to dissolve the district under Section
  3971.0901, at which time the board shall make the transfer of assets
  to the trust as provided by Section 3971.0902 and dissolve the
  district.
         Sec. 3971.0904.  DISPOSITION OF REMAINING DISTRICT ASSETS.
  (a) Not later than the 30th day before the date of the transfer of
  assets described by Section 3971.0902, the district shall: 
               (1)  compile a list of each taxing unit, as defined by
  Section 1.04, Tax Code, from which a public facility corporation
  created by the district received a tax exemption under Section
  303.042, Local Government Code, before September 1, 2023; and
               (2)  provide the list compiled under Subdivision (1) to
  the trustee of the trust created under Section 3971.0902.
         (b)  As soon as practicable after the transfer of assets
  described by Section 3971.0902 or 3971.0903, the trustee of the
  trust created under Section 3971.0902 shall send to each taxing
  unit, as defined by Section 1.04, Tax Code, from which a public
  facility corporation created by the district received a tax
  exemption under Section 303.042, Local Government Code, a payment
  from the trust assets.
         (c)  The trustee:
               (1)  may apply a reasonable portion of the trust assets
  to the trustee's costs incurred administering this section; and
               (2)  shall send any trust assets remaining after making
  the payments required by this section to a special fund of the
  county for use under Subsection (e).
         (d)  Each payment must be in an amount equal to the amount of
  tax revenue the receiving taxing unit would have collected from the
  public facility corporation without the exemption provided by
  Section 303.042, Local Government Code.  If the total amount of
  remaining assets of the district are less than the amount required
  to make the payments required under this subsection, the trustee
  shall make the payments on a pro-rata basis, based on the payment
  otherwise to be paid to each taxing unit.
         (e)  A county that receives assets under Subsection (c)(2)
  may use the assets only for a service or project that benefits the
  former territory of the district.
         SECTION 2.  (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,
  lieutenant governor, and 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 have been
  fulfilled and accomplished.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.