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HB2372 • 2025

Relating to the authority of certain special districts to use operation and maintenance ad valorem tax funds to pay the costs of contracting for or employing peace officers.

Relating to the authority of certain special districts to use operation and maintenance ad valorem tax funds to pay the costs of contracting for or employing peace officers.

Taxes
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Patterson
Last action
2025-04-09
Official status
04/09/2025 H No action taken in committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the authority of certain special districts to use operation and maintenance ad valorem tax funds to pay the costs of contracting for or employing peace officers.

Relating to the authority of certain special districts to use operation and maintenance ad valorem tax funds to pay the costs of contracting for or employing peace officers.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the authority of certain special districts to use operation and maintenance ad valorem tax funds to pay the costs of contracting for or employing peace officers.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  2. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    No action taken in committee

  3. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  4. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Natural Resources

  5. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the authority of certain special districts to use operation and maintenance ad valorem tax funds to pay the costs of contracting for or employing peace officers.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 2372 - Introduced version - Bill Text

89R3834 MP-D

By: Patterson

H.B. No. 2372

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the authority of certain special districts to use

operation and maintenance ad valorem tax funds to pay the costs of

contracting for or employing peace officers.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 49.107(a), Water Code, is amended to

read as follows:

(a) A district may levy and collect a tax for operation and

maintenance purposes, including funds for planning, constructing,

acquiring, maintaining, repairing, and operating all necessary

land, plants, works, facilities, improvements, appliances, and

equipment of the district and for paying costs of proper services,

engineering and legal fees, [
and
] organization and administrative

expenses
, and costs of contracting for or employing peace officers
.

SECTION 2. 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, 2025.