By: Kitzman (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) H.B. No. 5413
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2023;
  May 15, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Local
  Government; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the powers and duties of the Waller County Municipal
  Utility District No. 2.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 8236.103, Special District Local Laws
  Code, is amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  The district may design, acquire, construct, finance,
  issue bonds for, improve, operate, maintain, and convey to this
  state, a county, or a municipality for operation and maintenance
  macadamized, graveled, or paved roads or improvements, including
  storm drainage, in aid of those roads.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 8236, Special District
  Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 8236.105 to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 8236.105.  DIVISION OF DISTRICT. (a) The board, on its
  own motion or on receipt of a petition signed by the owner or owners
  of a majority of the assessed value of the real property in the
  district, may adopt an order dividing the district.
         (b)  An order dividing the district may create one or more
  new districts and may provide for the continuation of the district.
         (c)  An order dividing the district shall:
               (1)  name any new district;
               (2)  include the metes and bounds description of the
  territory of each of the districts;
               (3)  appoint temporary directors for any new district;
  and
               (4)  provide for the division of assets and liabilities
  between the districts.
         (d)  The board may adopt an order dividing the district
  before or after the date the board holds an election to confirm the
  district's creation.
         (e)  The district may be divided only if the district:
               (1)  has never issued any bonds; and
               (2)  is not imposing ad valorem taxes.
         (f)  A new district created by the division of the district
  may not, at the time the new district is created, contain any land
  outside the area described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this
  chapter.
         (g)  On or before the 30th day after the date of adoption of
  an order dividing the district, the district shall file the order
  with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and record the
  order in the real property records of each county in which the
  district is located.
         (h)  This chapter applies to any new district created by the
  division of the district, and a new district has all the powers and
  duties of the district.
         (i)  A new district created by the division of the district
  shall hold a confirmation and directors' election.
         (j)  If the creation of the new district is confirmed, the
  new district shall provide the election date and results to the
  Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
         (k)  A new district created by the division of the district
  must hold an election as required by this chapter to obtain voter
  approval before the district may impose a maintenance tax or issue
  bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes.
         (l)  The district may continue to rely on confirmation,
  directors', bond, and tax elections held before the division.
         (m)  Municipal consent to the creation of the district and to
  the inclusion of land in the district acts as municipal consent to
  the creation of any new district created by the division of the
  district and to the inclusion of land in the new district.
         SECTION 3.  Sections 8236.103(b), (c), and (e), Special
  District Local Laws Code, are repealed.
         SECTION 4.  The Waller County Municipal Utility District No.
  2 retains all the rights, powers, privileges, authority, duties,
  and functions that it had before the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 5.  (a) The legislature validates and confirms all
  governmental acts and proceedings of the Waller County Municipal
  Utility District No. 2 that were taken before the effective date of
  this Act.
         (b)  This section does not apply to any matter that on the
  effective date of this Act:
               (1)  is involved in litigation if the litigation
  ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final court
  judgment; or
               (2)  has been held invalid by a final court judgment.
         SECTION 6.  (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 7.  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.
 
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