2025 bills / S.B. 241
S.B. 241 Limited Purpose Local Government Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill lets certain local special districts pledge impact fee and other fee revenue toward general obligation bonds, and lets basic special districts create public infrastructure districts and fund certain facilities and affordable housing projects. It also changes how property owners consent to and join or leave these districts, who may be appointed or elected to their boards, and how these districts issue bonds and direct property tax revenue to other entities.
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Official description
- defines terms and modifies definitions
- provides that a property owner special district may pledge all or a portion of revenue collected from an impact fee or other fee toward payment of a general obligation bond
- authorizes a basic special district to create a public infrastructure district
- authorizes a basic special district to fund:
- the acquisition and construction of certain facilities
- affordable housing projects
- modifies requirements for determining consent of surface property owners within a public infrastructure district
- modifies provisions related to the appointment or election of board members for a public infrastructure district
- modifies provisions related to the annexation of property to, or withdrawal of property from, a public infrastructure district
- provides that a public entity or private person may not receive funds from any portion of a public infrastructure district's property tax revenue without a resolution of the public infrastructure district's board authorizing the public entity or private person to receive the funds
- modifies the process for a public infrastructure district to issue a bond
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 241 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 241 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 1 no, 4 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 22 yes, 4 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 58 yes, 14 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 2 no, 2 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how