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.