H.B. No. 4604

	AN ACT
	relating to the authority of the Barrett Management District to
	finance an improvement project or service.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 3930, Special District
	Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 3930.1515 to read as
	follows:
	Sec. 3930.1515.  ELECTION REQUIRED FOR FINANCING SERVICES
	AND IMPROVEMENTS. The board may not finance a service or an
	improvement project under this chapter unless the service or
	improvement is approved by 60 percent of the votes cast in an
	election held for that purpose. The election must be conducted in
	the manner provided by Subchapter D, Chapter 49, Water Code, for a
	bond election.
	SECTION 2.  Section 3930.154, Special District Local Laws
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 3930.154.  ASSESSMENTS; LIENS FOR ASSESSMENTS [NOT
	AUTHORIZED]. (a) The board by resolution may impose and collect an
	assessment for any purpose authorized by this chapter in all or any
	part of the district [The district may not impose an assessment].
	(b)  An assessment, a reassessment, or an assessment
	resulting from an addition to or correction of the assessment roll
	by the district, penalties and interest on an assessment or
	reassessment, an expense of collection, and reasonable attorney's
	fees incurred by the district:
	(1)  are a first and prior lien against the property
	assessed;
	(2)  are superior to any other lien or claim other than
	a lien or claim for county, school district, or municipal ad valorem
	taxes; and
	(3)  are the personal liability of and a charge against
	the owners of the property even if the owners are not named in the
	assessment proceedings.
	(c)  The lien is effective from the date of the board's
	resolution imposing the assessment until the date the assessment is
	paid. The board may enforce the lien in the same manner that the
	board may enforce an ad valorem tax lien against real property.
	(d)  The board may make a correction to or deletion from the
	assessment roll that does not increase the amount of assessment of
	any parcel of land without providing notice and holding a hearing in
	the manner required for additional assessments [Subchapter F,
	Chapter 375, Local Government Code, does not apply to the
	district].
	SECTION 3.  Section 3930.151, Special District Local Laws
	Code, is repealed.
	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,
	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 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.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 4604 was passed by the House on May
	11, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 100, Nays 43, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 4604 on May 28, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 94, Nays 52,
	2 present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 4604 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays
	2.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
	__________________
	Governor