Bill Text: TX SB2184 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Brazoria Drainage District Number Four to impose a maintenance tax and the validation of certain acts of the Brazoria Drainage District Number Four.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-10 - Left pending in committee [SB2184 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2184-Introduced.html
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By: Taylor | S.B. No. 2184 |
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relating to the authority of the Brazoria Drainage District Number | ||
Four to impose a maintenance tax and the validation of certain acts | ||
of the Brazoria Drainage District Number Four. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 19, Chapter 991, Acts of the 74th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended by adding Subsection | ||
(e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) This section applies only to a maintenance tax levied | ||
and collected under the powers conferred by Section 59, Article | ||
XVI, Texas Constitution. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 991, Acts of the 74th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 1995, is amended by adding Section 19A to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 19A. MAINTENANCE TAX: SECTION 52, ARTICLE III. (a) The | ||
district may impose a maintenance tax under the powers conferred by | ||
Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, as authorized by | ||
Chapter 7, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1929. | ||
(b) Section 56.242(a), Water Code, does not apply to a | ||
maintenance tax imposed under this section. | ||
SECTION 3. The legislature validates and confirms all | ||
governmental acts and proceedings of Brazoria Drainage District | ||
Number Four before the effective date of this Act in imposing a | ||
maintenance tax. | ||
SECTION 4. (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 5. 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, 2021. |