1-1 By: Stiles (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 811
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 1993;
1-3 March 31, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 29, 1993, reported favorably, as
1-5 amended, by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 29, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Rosson
1-21 Amend H.B. 811 as follows:
1-22 page 1, line 37, strike the words "or other entity"
1-23 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-24 AN ACT
1-25 relating to annexation by general-law municipalities.
1-26 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-27 SECTION 1. Section 43.033(a), Local Government Code, is
1-28 amended to read as follows:
1-29 (a) A general-law municipality may annex adjacent territory
1-30 without the consent of any of the residents or voters of the area
1-31 and without the consent of any of the owners of land in the area
1-32 provided that the following conditions are met:
1-33 (1) the municipality has a population of 1,000 or more
1-34 and is not eligible to adopt a home-rule charter;
1-35 (2) the procedural rules prescribed by this chapter
1-36 are met;
1-37 (3) the municipality or other entity must be providing
1-38 the area with water or <and> sewer service;
1-39 (4) the area does not include unoccupied territory in
1-40 excess of one acre for each service address for water and sewer
1-41 service;
1-42 (5) the service plan requires that police and fire
1-43 protection at a level consistent with protection provided within
1-44 the municipality must be provided to the area within 10 days after
1-45 the effective date of the annexation; and
1-46 (6) the municipality and the affected landowners have
1-47 not entered an agreement to not annex the area for a certain time
1-48 period.
1-49 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-50 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-51 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-52 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-53 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-54 * * * * *
1-55 Austin,
1-56 Texas
1-57 April 29, 1993
1-58 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-59 President of the Senate
1-60 Sir:
1-61 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-62 referred H.B. No. 811, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-63 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-64 recommendation that it do pass, as amended, and be printed.
1-65 Armbrister,
1-66 Chairman
1-67 * * * * *
1-68 WITNESSES
2-1 No witnesses appeared on H.B. 811.