By Moffat H.B. No. 1949
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the adoption of municipal boundaries and annexation of
1-3 area.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 43.901, Local Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 43.901. CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH CONSENT TO BOUNDARIES OR
1-8 ANNEXATION IS PRESUMED. (a) A municipal ordinance defining
1-9 boundaries of or annexing area to a municipality is conclusively
1-10 presumed to have been adopted in accordance with the requirements
1-11 of this chapter <with the consent of all appropriate persons> if:
1-12 (1) two years have expired after the date of the
1-13 adoption of the ordinance; and
1-14 (2) an action to annul or review the adoption of the
1-15 ordinance has not been initiated in that two-year period.
1-16 (b) This section does not validate governmental acts or
1-17 proceedings relating to a municipality's annexation or attempted
1-18 annexation, or the inclusion of territory on the official city
1-19 boundary map, which is in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of
1-20 another municipality, without the consent of that municipality.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.