Bill Text: TX HB5171 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a special district to exercise a right or power outside the district's boundaries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Referred to County Affairs [HB5171 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5171-Introduced.html
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| By: Wilson | H.B. No. 5171 | |
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| relating to the authority of a special district to exercise a right | ||
| or power outside the district's boundaries. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle Z, Title 10, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 3001 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 3001. SPECIAL DISTRICT RIGHTS AND POWERS LIMITATION | ||
| Sec. 3001.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "special | ||
| district" means a political subdivision of this state with a | ||
| limited geographic area created for a special purpose by local law | ||
| or under general law. The term does not include a school district. | ||
| Sec. 3001.002. RIGHTS AND POWERS LIMITED TO BOUNDARIES. | ||
| (a) Notwithstanding any other law, except as provided by | ||
| Subsection (c), a special district may not exercise any right or | ||
| power outside the district's boundaries on or after September 1, | ||
| 2023. | ||
| (b) This section prevails over a special law governing a | ||
| special district. | ||
| (c) This chapter does not diminish or impair the rights of | ||
| the holders of any outstanding and unpaid debts, bonds, warrants, | ||
| or other obligations of a special district. After September 1, | ||
| 2023, a special district may continue to exercise a right or power | ||
| outside the district as provided by other law only as necessary to | ||
| pay or fulfill any outstanding and unpaid debts, bonds, warrants, | ||
| or other obligations. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
