1-1 By: Combs (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 1312
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 5, 1993, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 5, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Armbrister x
1-9 Leedom x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Madla x
1-13 Moncrief x
1-14 Patterson x
1-15 Rosson x
1-16 Shapiro x
1-17 Wentworth x
1-18 Whitmire x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to governmental authority and voter rights in the
1-22 extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain municipalities.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 42, Local Government Code,
1-25 is amended by adding Section 42.904 to read as follows:
1-26 Sec. 42.904. EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION AND VOTING RIGHTS
1-27 IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only to a
1-28 municipality that has disannexed territory under Section 43.133
1-29 that it had previously annexed for limited purposes and that has
1-30 extended rules to its extraterritorial jurisdiction under Section
1-31 212.003.
1-32 (b) The municipality shall allow all qualified voters
1-33 residing in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction to
1-34 vote on any proposition that is submitted to the voters of the
1-35 municipality and that involves:
1-36 (1) an adoption of or change to an ordinance or
1-37 charter provision that would apply to the municipality's
1-38 extraterritorial jurisdiction; or
1-39 (2) a nonbinding referendum that, if binding, would
1-40 apply to the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
1-41 SECTION 2. This Act does not affect the validity of an
1-42 ordinance or charter provision adopted before the effective date of
1-43 this Act other than an ordinance or charter provision relating to
1-44 persons eligible to vote in municipal elections.
1-45 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-46 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-47 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-48 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-49 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-50 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-51 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-53 Austin,
1-54 Texas
1-55 May 5, 1993
1-56 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-57 President of the Senate
1-58 Sir:
1-59 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-60 referred H.B. No. 1312, have had the same under consideration, and
1-61 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-62 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-63 Armbrister,
1-64 Chairman
1-65 * * * * *
1-66 WITNESSES
1-67 FOR AGAINST ON
1-68 ___________________________________________________________________
2-1 Name: Judge Bill Aleshire x
2-2 Representing: Travis County
2-3 City: Austin
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2-5 Name: Steve Hudson x
2-6 Representing: Tx Assoc. of Builders
2-7 City: Austin
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2-9 Name: Commissioner Valerie Bristol x
2-10 Representing: Trav. Ct. Comm. Et.
2-11 City: Austin
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