H.B. No. 1312 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to governmental authority and voter rights in the 1-3 extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain municipalities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 42, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 42.904 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 42.904. EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION AND VOTING RIGHTS 1-8 IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only to a 1-9 municipality that has disannexed territory under Section 43.133 1-10 that it had previously annexed for limited purposes and that has 1-11 extended rules to its extraterritorial jurisdiction under Section 1-12 212.003. 1-13 (b) The municipality shall allow all qualified voters 1-14 residing in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction to 1-15 vote on any proposition that is submitted to the voters of the 1-16 municipality and that involves: 1-17 (1) an adoption of or change to an ordinance or 1-18 charter provision that would apply to the municipality's 1-19 extraterritorial jurisdiction; or 1-20 (2) a nonbinding referendum that, if binding, would 1-21 apply to the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act does not affect the validity of an 1-23 ordinance or charter provision adopted before the effective date of 1-24 this Act other than an ordinance or charter provision relating to 2-1 persons eligible to vote in municipal elections. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.